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Discoveries  Which  Make 
Mental  Therapeutics 

AND 

The  Transmission  of  Mental 

Communications  an 

Exact  Science 


Containing  the  Discovery  of   the   Exact  Mechanical 

Proof  of  the  Law  Underlying  All  Mind  Cures  and 

the  Transmission  of  Mental  Communications; 

Also  Showing  How   to  Make  Mental 

Photographic  Diagnosis  of  Diseases 

Whether  the  Patient  Be 

Present  or  Absent 

BY 

D.  W.  STARRETT 


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UNIVERSITY 

Oakland 
1908 


Copyright 
by  D.  W.  STARRETT 

August  10,  1908 


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TO  MY  WIFE 

WHOSE  ELEVATING  PRESENCE  HAS  EVER 

ASSISTED  ME  IN   FORGING  AHEAD 

TO  DO  AND  DARE 

THIS  VOLUME 

IS  LOVINGLY  DEDICATED 

BY 

The  Author 


PREFACE 


When  writing  the  preface  of  "Mental  Thera- 
peutics, or  How  to  Cure  all  Diseases  With  the 
Mind,"  the  author  did  not  dream  of  the  fullness 
of  joy  with  which  he  would  be  filled  at  sight  of 
the  glorious  country  that  would  come  into  view 
as  he  journeyed  upward. 

If  you  have  climbed  the  beautiful  mountains 
and  felt  the  impulse  to  fly  like  a  bird  to  view 
quickly  that  dreamland  and  ocean  beyond,  you 
will  know  the  exultation  possessing  him  at  the 
sight  of  wonderful  things  he  never  dared  to 
dream  of. 

To  be  able  to  prove  with  so  simple  an  instru- 
ment as  a  thermometer  the  laws  underlying  these 
mind  cures,  whether  the  patient  is  present,  or 
absent  many  miles,  would  seem  enough  pleasure 
for  one  lifetime.  But  to  have  another  discovery 
of  such  vast  importance  thrust  upon  you  that 
your  mind  is  in  a  whirl  of  wonderment  at  the 
possibilities  contained  therein  would  seem  too 
good  to  be  true.  I  refer  to  the  discovery  of  the 
mental  diagnosis  of  diseases. 


Mental  Therapeutics 

To  surmount,  by  hard  climbing,  the  great  ob- 
stacle to  human  progress — sickness — was  task 
enough  to  try  the  stoutest  heart.  The  greater 
task  of  learning  how  to  know,  before  it  was  too 
late,  the  condition  of  one's  body,  so  that  by  the 
prevention  of  disease  the  cure  will  not  be  needed, 
was  hard  enough  to  discourage  all  attempts  at 
its  solution.  It  was  discovered  only  by  tenacity 
of  purpose,  without  skill  or  knowledge. 

If  you  desire  to  possess  it  you  will  have  to  use 
the  same  quality.  I  do  not  believe  there  are  any 
short  cuts  for  acquiring  such  knowledge. 

I  have  positive  proof  that  all  brain  disorders 
can  be  overcome  if  the  parts  are  not  entirely  gone ; 
that  the  desire  for  drink  can  be  eradicated  by  the 
destruction  of  the  germs  in  the  intestines ;  and  so 
on,  with  many  of  the  desires  for  sin  which  the 
human  mind  is  constantly  tempted  with. 

The  great  vineyard  will  be  in  the  teaching  of 
little  children  day  after  day  as  they  journey  to- 
wards man's  estate. 

The  whole  solar  system  is  thought  to  be  mov- 
ing through  space  in  a  vast  sweeping  curve,  at 
the  rate  of  thirteen  miles  per  second.  We  do 
not  know  whence  it  came  nor  whither  it  is  mov- 
ing. 

Man  was  thrust  out  of  the  Garden  of  Eden  for 
his  disobedience.  He  too  is  traveling  in  a  vast 
sweeping  circle  which  can  end  only  at  one  point. 


An  Exact  Science 

When  lost  individually  you  are  always  prone  to 
circles  which  lead  you  whence  you  came. 

Already  the  top  of  the  old  "Tree  of  Knowl- 
edge" is  coming  to  view.  When  sickness  and 
sin  have  been  permanently  overcome,  at  that  in- 
stant the  old  familiar  "Garden  Gates"  will  be 
reached  and  man's  long  journey  completed,  with 
the  full  knowledge  that  he  has  been  lost  and  is 
found. 


Discoveries  Which   Make  Mental 
Therapeutics  and  the  Trans- 
mission of  Mental  Com- 
munications   an 
Exact  Science. 


I. 

The  practice  of  the  discovery  which  I  have  dis- 
closed to  the  public  in  my  work  entitled  "Mental 
Therapeutics,  or  How  to  Cure  All  Diseases  With 
the  Mind"  has  led  to  other  discoveries  of  such 
far-reaching  possibilities  that  I  feel  it  my  duty  to 
make  them  public  property  also.  Keener  minds 
than  my  own  may  then  take  up  the  work  and  the 
world  will  be  much  benefited  thereby.  Why 
should  not  scientific  men  be  willing  to  follow  new 
lines  of  thought  even  when  discovered  primarily 
by  an  untrained  mind? 

From  the  further  practice  of  the  discovery  de- 
scribed in  the  above  mentioned  work  I  have 
proved  beyond  the  shadow  of  a  doubt  that  it  is  a 
fundamental  discovery,  and  that  sometime  it  must 
be  so  recognized.     Had  some  noted  physician 

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given  it  to  the  world  clothed  in  professional 
language  the  world  would  have  taken  it  up  at 
once  and  even  now  would  be  reaping  rich  rewards 
of  health  and  strength.  I  am  content,  however, 
to  await  my  turn,  knowing  full  well  that  every 
man  who  earnestly  does  his  duty  will  sooner  or 
later  come  into  his  own. 

I  desire  to  repeat  a  statement  made  in  my  for- 
mer book,  that  no  one  person  ever  succeeded 
alone  in  getting  any  great  discovery  before  the 
people.  I  wish  to  give  honor  to  whom  it  belongs 
for  the  help  I  have  received  from  their  labors. 
From  the  work  of  the  world's  greatest  bacteri- 
ologist I  have  gained  my  knowledge  of  the  won- 
ders of  germ  life ;  from  the  text-books  of  the  pub- 
lic schools,  a  partial  understanding  of  anatomy 
and  a  general  knowledge  of  the  blood.  I  must 
mention  specifically  the  writings  of  E.  F.  Arnold, 
B.  S.,  M.  D.,  on  the  subject  of  "How  the  Blood 
Defends  the  Body"  and  an  excellent  article  by 
William  Hanna  Thomson,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.  on  "The 
Nervous  System  and  the  Blood."  Both  works 
deserve  more  than  ordinary  mention. 

Next  comes  that  wonderful  woman,  Mary 
Baker  G.  Eddy.  What  I  desire  to  praise  most 
in  her  is  the  wonderful,  almost  supernatural, 
tenacity  of  purpose.  To  be  sure  I  think  she  has 
builded  on  an  insecure  foundation.  Yet,  but  for 
her,  the  world  would  have  had  to  wait  many 

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years  for  the  scientific  knowledge  it  is  getting 
now.  The  force  of  her  work  has  compelled 
scientists  to  investigate,  with  the  result  that  they 
have  found  truth  therein.  But  for  that  tenacity 
of  purpose  I  should  never  have  been  led  to  in- 
vestigate the  "why"  of  sickness.  Perhaps  she,  in 
her  turn,  is  indebted  to  Mr.  Quimby;  but  the 
energy  displayed  in  putting  results  before  the 
world  was  all  her  own. 

II. 

The  law  that  I  propounded  in  my  previous 
work  was  that  any  one  of  sound  mind  can  by 
practice  get  control  of  the  corpuscle  and  cellular 
life  of  his  body  and  make  it  do  his  bidding  at  any 
time ;  also  that  he  can  control  the  same  life  in  the 
body  of  another,  absent  or  present,  provided  only 
that  that  other  person  does  not  oppose  such  con- 
trol. Under  that  law  one  can  direct  the  cor- 
puscle and  cell  life  to  destroy  or  drive  off  the 
enemy,  the  bacteria  which  are  ever  ready  to  dive 
into  the  body  because  they  are  hungry  and  cold 
and  desire  a  place  to  propagate  their  kind. 

I  have  proven  beyond  a  doubt  that  this  is  a 
mechanical  problem.  In  mechanics,  if  you  have  a 
certain  weight  to  lift,  you  know  that  you  must 
provide  power  enough  to  outbalance  that  weight, 
with  some  to  spare.  The  same  is  true  in  this 
method    of    curing    bodily    ills,    your    own    or 

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another's.  You  have  to  generate  enough  power  to 
destroy  or  drive  out  the  germs  that  are  causing 
the  trouble.  I  have  found  that  in  common  stom- 
ach troubles  one  can  dispel  them  with  so  little 
effort  that  it  hardly  seems  work  at  all. 

Nerve  troubles  require  the  expenditure  of  more 
energy — magnetism,  electricity,  heat,  or  whatever 
you  like  to  call  it — to  destroy  the  enemy.  The 
germs  of  catarrh,  neuralgia,  rheumatism,  and 
those  that  destroy  the  optic  nerve  of  the  eye, 
where  it  has  become  organically  injured,  demand 
much  more  power  to  conquer  them  than  many 
other  diseases.  When  I  say  that  it  takes  the  ex- 
penditure of  a  certain  amount  of  mechanical 
power  to  kill  the  disease  germs,  I  mean  it  just  as 
literally  as  you  would  say  it  takes  ten-horse 
power  to  drive  an  automobile,  or  a  ten  horse- 
power motor  to  run  a  laundry. 

For  instance  I  have  raised  the  temperature  of 
a  man  weighing  one  hundred  and  seventy  pounds 
seven-tenths  of  a  degree  in  three  minutes,  when 
distant  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  miles.  From 
this  it  should  be  easy  to  figure  the  exact  power 
transmitted,  making  it  purely  a  mathematical 
problem. 

If  the  waves  go  out  in  all  directions,  which 
they  do,  one  can  readily  see  that  the  power  which 
I  sent  for  useful  work  to  this  man's  body,  if  mul- 
tiplied by  that  which  I  could  have  transmitted 

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to  the  number  of  men  who  might  stand  within  a 
half  sphere  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  miles 
radius,  would  make  it  a  "boot  strap  proposition" 
if  each  received  the  same  amount. 

So  to  keep  the  problem  within  the  bounds  of 
mathematics,  it  must  be  like  a  child  who  liberates 
the  energy  of  tons  of  dynamite  by  the  pressure  of 
an  electric  button,  or  that  each  man  who  is  added 
to  the  half  sphere  detracts  or  takes  away  a  part 
of  the  energy  that  would  have  gone  to  those  who 
were  already  within  the  radius  of  my  power. 

If  I  send  out  waves  of  electricity  which  signal 
to  his  workmen  all  through  the  body  to  start 
work  at  once,  and  it  causes  the  cell  life  at  the 
pores  of  the  skin  to  close  "dampers"  a  little,  then 
it  becomes  a  reasonable  proposition.  However, 
this  is  for  the  scientist  to  determine. 

If  a  ten  horse-power  generator  is  sitting  on  the 
floor  unconnected  with  power,  and  if  you  are 
standing  by  it  without  thinking  or  giving  expres- 
sion to  your  thoughts,  you  and  the  generator  are 
very  similar.  Both  of  you  are  of  very  little  use 
to  the  world;  yet  you  are  both  full  of  power  or 
magnetism.  The  whole  secret  in  each  case  is  to 
get  this  magnetism  out  of  the  machine  so  that  it 
may  give  up  its  equivalent,  which  is  heat.  To  get 
power  from  the  generator,  you  put  on  the  belt 
and  start  it  to  revolving,  thereby  producing  a 
difference  of  pressure,  or  a  higher  pressure,  which 

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causes  the  electricity  to  flow  back  through  the  re- 
turn wire  to  its  starting  point.  If  there  is  a  loss 
in  its  passage,  which  of  course  there  is,  the  supply 
is  kept  up  from  the  earth,  which  is  the  great 
reservoir,  or  perhaps  to  some  extent  from  the 
air.  To  get  power  from  the  human  machine  you 
must  do  the  same  thing.  When  we  eat  we  pro- 
vide the  source  of  energy.  The  disintegration  of 
the  food  produces  the  difference  in  pressure — a 
lower  one — which  causes  the  magnetism  from 
earth  and  air  to  flow  in.  By  thinking,  we  cause 
this  magnetism  to  flow  out  in  all  directions  just 
as  in  wireless  telegraphy.  The  amount  of  the 
current  we  send  out  depends  on  the  amount  of 
energy  exerted  in  thinking. 

If  you  ask  how  the  mind,  an  immaterial  thing, 
can  produce  an  effect  on  a  material  body,  I  will 
say  frankly  that  I  do  not  know,  but  think  that  that 
great  problem  will  be  solved  in  time.  It  is  not 
necessary  to  know  for  our  present  purpose.  We 
are  sure  that  it  does  so  act;  for  example,  when 
the  mind  gives  an  order  to  the  leg  to  move  for- 
ward, the  leg  obeys  every  time,  if  that  mind  is  in 
a  perfect  machine — i.  e.,  if  the  body  has  no  de- 
formity or  ailments.  The  order  is  issued  from 
the  cerebrum  to  the  cerebellum,  where  the  circuit 
is  closed,  so  that  the  electricity  can  flow  along 
the  proper  nerve  to  the  stations  of  gray  matter, 
the  intelligent  life  therein  delivers  it  to  the  cell 

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life  in  the  cords  for  execution  of  the  order  to  a 
nicety. 

In  my  discovery  I  claimed  that  all  one  has  to 
do  is  to  practice  giving  orders  to  his  corpuscles 
and  cell  life,  if  he  would  get  back  the  control, 
which  he  never  had,  that  would  enable  him  to 
direct  them  to  fight  off  the  enemy,  either  in 
his  own  body  or  that  of  another,  thereby  stop- 
ping pain  at  once  and  giving  the  cell  life  a  chance 
to  rebuild  the  lost  tissues.  The  orders  will  be 
executed  just  as  above,  only,  in  this  case,  the 
flow  of  electricity  goes  out  in  all  directions,  as  in 
wireless  telegraphy. 

The  corpuscles  do  not  obey  well  till  one  can 
send  out  a  strong  current.  To  reach  the  corpus- 
cles in  one's  own  blood  or  in  another's,  the  cur- 
rent must  flow  without  the  medium  of  nerve 
wires.  The  mind  or  soul  starts  the  waves,  just 
as  the  spark  starts  them  in  wireless  telegraphy. 
These  waves  travel  out  in  all  directions,  and  as 
far  as  the  energy  generated  sends  them.  They 
strike  all  bodies  within  their  circle,  producing 
heat  from  the  resistance  to  the  flow  through  the 
flesh.  Heat  is  the  first  step  in  making  a  cure, 
but  it  is  not  sufficient  in  itself,  for  the  germs  love 
heat,  and  while  it  may  make  the  corpuscles  lively 
and  more  combative,  it  is  liable  to  do  the  same 
thing  for  the  germs.    The  second  step  in  the  cure 

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is  to  order  the  corpuscles  to  go  to  the  diseased 
spot  and  work  with  the  cellular  life  to  destroy 
the  enemy. 

III. 

In  this  chapter  I  shall  produce  the  proof  of  the 
above  assertions.  In  the  preface  of  my  first  work 
on  this  subject,  I  made  the  statement  that  I  do 
not  believe  in  mysteries.  I  referred  especially 
to  the  mystery  of  the  power  that  accomplishes  all 
these  so-called  mind  cures.  I  explained  the  way 
in  which  I  had  figured  out  the  exact  "how"  of  it, 
as  I  have  just  done  more  briefly  in  the  preceding 
chapter. 

While  the  explanation  looked  reasonable  to 
an  outsider,  still  a  very  good  one  could  be  made 
quite  easily  by  all  of  the  new  mind  cure  methods. 
At  that  time  I  had  no  idea  how  I  was  to  prove  to 
a  scientific  mind  that  when  one  thinks  of  another, 
absent  or  present,  he  is  sending  power — heat  to 
that  person's  body.  I  knew  that  no  matter  how 
hard  one  exercises  to  make  himself  perspire 
freely,  the  thermometer  will  not  show  any  more 
heat  in  the  body.  It  seems  that  the  cellular  life 
which  controls  the  valves  at  all  the  pores  of  the 
skin,  knows  when  one  exercises  and  immediately 
opens  the  valves  to  allow  just  enough  heat  to 
escape  to  maintain  an  even  temperature.  I  even 
went  so  far  as  to  prove  by  actual  experiment  what 

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I  had  read  about  the  conditions  under  which  one's 
temperature  can  be  raised  or  lowered.  I  tried 
running  up  a  very  steep  hill  after  having  taken 
my  temperature.  Of  course,  although  I  felt  very 
warm,  I  found  no  change.  Then  I  tried  it  be- 
fore and  after  eating,  and  found  a  rise  after  eat- 
ing. Under  no  other  test  except  the  one  which 
I  will  subsequently  relate,  could  I  make  any 
change. 

I  estimated  that  the  life  within  the  stations  of 
brain  matter  and  the  cellular  life  under  their 
charge  knew  when  to  open  the  perspiration  valves 
and  when  not  to.  From  this  the  thought  came 
to  me  that  if  I  sent  electric  waves  to  the  discharge 
artery  of  my  heart,  which  would  produce  heat 
there,  the  perspiration  valves  would  not  be 
opened;  first,  because  there  would  be  no  order 
for  so  doing  from  the  brain;  and,  secondly,  be- 
cause these  valve  operators  would  not  act  without 
such  orders,  it  being  an  extraordinary  case. 

I  took  my  temperature  for  two  minutes,  then 
read  it  and  held  the  thermometer  under  my  tongue 
for  two  minutes.  I  had  raised  the  temperature 
three-eighths  of  a  degree.  I  felt  much  elated  at 
my  success  and  tried  it  several  times,  finding  that 
I  could  put  up  my  temperature  as  much  as  a  de- 
gree in  a  few  minutes  and  at  times  lower  it  as 
much.  Then  I  went  to  a  druggist,  from  whom  I 
had  purchased  the  instrument,  and  told  him  that 
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it  would  not  register  twice  alike,  and  that  I 
thought  it  was  a  poor  one,  not  telling  him,  of 
course,  what  I  was  doing.  He  tried  it  and  it 
registered  always  the  same.  Of  course  he  said 
that  I  had  not  read  it  correctly.  He  was  a  regu- 
larly graduated  physician  and  knew  that  it  would 
not  change  except  under  the  well  known  condi- 
tions, and  perhaps  a  little  for  nervousness. 

This  test  proved  conclusively  the  first  step  in 
my  chain  of  reasoning.  The  second  step  was  to 
try  whether  I  could  send  heat  to  another's  body 
at  any  distance.  I  knew  that  if  the  thermometer 
rose  in  the  same  manner,  especially  if  the  other 
person  did  not  know  what  I  was  making  the 
tests  for,  it  would  prove  to  any  scientific  mind 
that  there  was  a  transmission  of  power  from  one 
person  to  another.  I  tried  it  first  with  my  wife. 
I  took  her  normal  temperature  for  two  minutes, 
read  it,  and  allowed  her  to  hold  the  thermometer 
under  her  tongue  for  two  minutes,  not  telling  her 
what  I  was  doing  it  for.  The  first  time  I  tried  it 
I  was  within  a  few  feet  of  her  and  put  the  tem- 
perature up  one-half  a  degree.  I  repeated  the 
experiment,  this  time  going  out  of  doors  and 
closing  the  door.  The  result  was  about  the  same. 
After  her  temperature  had  settled  back  to  the 
normal,  I  made  a  third  trial,  going  this  time 
about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  out  into  the  forest. 
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I  went  to  my  son,  who  was  entirely  ignorant 
of  what  I  had  discovered,  and  told  him  to  take 
his  normal  temperature  for  two  minutes,  mark  it 
down,  and  then  take  it  for  two  minutes  more.  If 
he  found  a  rise  of  two-fifths  of  a  degree  or  more, 
he  was  to  come  to  me  at  once.  I  would  be  in  the 
house  a  block  away.  I  centered  my  thoughts  on 
his  heart.  In  about  seven  minutes  he  came  to  the 
house  and  I  asked  him  why  he  had  done  so.  He 
replied  that  he  had  received  my  message.  I  said 
to  him,  "You  have  had  the  pleasure  of  partici- 
pating in  the  transmission  of  the  first  thought 
message  sent  wirelessly  and  recorded  by  the  use 
of  a  mechanical  instrument."  (The  thing  may 
have  been  done  before,  but,  if  so,  it  has  not  been 
made  known  to  the  public  in  general.) 

I  did  not  think  it  possible  that  I  was  sending 
out  a  stream  of  electric  corpuscles  direct  to  the 
party  on  whom  I  centered  my  thoughts.  Com- 
mon sense  caused  me  to  make  the  assertion,  in  my 
first  work,  that  the  waves  went  out  as  in  wireless 
telegraphy.  My  third  step  was  to  prove  that 
statement.  At  the  first  test  I  had  a  friend  close 
by  take  one  thermometer,  and  my  wife,  standing 
about  thirty  feet  away  from  the  friend,  at  a  right 
angle  to  a  line  drawn  between  us,  took  another. 
After  taking  her  normal  temperature  I  said  to 
my  wife,  "I  will  now  raise  my  friend's  temper- 
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raise  yours."  The  results  proved  my  theory  con- 
clusively, for  both  temperatures  went  up  about 
three-fifths  of  a  degree.  Later  on  I  tried  it  blocks 
away  with  the  same  result.  I  also  found  that  it 
made  some  difference  whether  one  had  the 
knowledge  that  I  was  going  to  try  to  raise  his 
temperature.  In  such  cases  it  would  rise  even 
when  I  did  not  try  to  make  it. 

For  instance  I  set  an  exact  moment  when  I 
would  try  to  raise  or  lower  another's  temperature 
for  five  consecutive  times.  I  tried  to  change  his 
normal  temperature  for  the  first  three  nights  and 
did  so;  but  the  last  two  nights  I  did  not  try, 
though  without  the  other  person's  knowing  that 
I  did  not.  Still  his  temperature  was  raised.  I  ex- 
plain it  in  this  way:  Although  he  tried  not  to 
think  of  himself,  yet  the  fact  from  previous  trials 
was  known  to  the  intelligent  corpuscle  and  cellular 
life,  and  they  caused  the  heart  to  beat  a  little 
faster  or  closed  the  pores.  I  found  that  it  worked 
in  that  manner  only  after  considerable  practice. 
If  one  is  sick  and  the  heart  is  beating  too  slowly, 
I  can  always  raise  his  vitality  by  sending  the  elec- 
tric heat  to  the  organ,  coupled  with  an  order 
for  the  cellular  gray  matter  in  command  at  that 
station  to  have  the  cellular  life  in  the  walls  of  the 
heart  to  work  a  little  faster.  This  may  sound 
foolish,  until  you  try  it  yourself  and  get  results. 
If  the  heart  is  beating  too  fast  it  can  be  slowed 
down  in  the  same  manner. 

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IV. 

The  fourth  step  was  to  prove  whether  the 
thought  waves,  or  rather  electric  waves,  went  out 
to  any  considerable  distance. 

My  first  experiments  along  this  line  were  made 
while  I  was  at  Carmel-by-the-Sea,  Monterey 
County,  California.  After  having  tried  it  many 
times  between  parties  at  different  places  in  that 
beautiful  little  town,  I  made  arrangements  for  a 
test  between  Carmel  and  San  Francisco.  The 
distance  seemed  to  make  no  difference.  It  must, 
of  course,  be  remembered  that,  at  the  time  of 
these  trials,  I  had  been,  for  about  four  years, 
practicing  the  sending  out  of  electric  waves  and 
healing  people  at  a  distance.  I  found  out  very 
soon  that  it  was  no  especial  gift  which  I  pos- 
sessed, that  enabled  me  to  get  those  results.  I 
tried  the  same  experiments  with  a  lady  who  was 
sick,  and  who  had  practiced  curing  herself  for 
only  about  five  months.  She  could  raise  my  tem- 
perature at  a  distance  of  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
six  miles.  It  requires  two  talents  only,  and  these 
every  one  has  if  he  will  use  them.  I  will  return 
to  them  later  on. 

I  have  now  proved  that  wireless  waves  can  be 
sent  out,  by  a  person's  thinking  in  the  right  way, 
for  a  distance  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  miles. 
Mind  cures  have  been  made  from  a  distance  of 
ten  thousand  miles,  as  recorded  by  Mr.  Hudson 

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in  one  of  his  works  on  Mental  Therapeutics.  It  is 
only  a  question  of  power  and,  in  connection  with 
this,  thought  force. 

I  have  gone  without  consuming  fuel — food — 
for  three  days  and  found  that  I  did  not  send  out 
waves  of  sufficient  power  to  raise  my  own  or 
another's  temperature.  Without  a  doubt  there 
was  some  flow  of  current.  I  made  this  experi- 
ment to  find  out  if  it  was  the  spirit  alone  which 
caused  the  waves  to  flow — or  did  the  material 
body  have  much  to  do  with  it?  It  seems  to  prove 
conclusively  that  one  must  take  in  fuel  to  keep 
up  his  "fires"  the  same  as  in  any  other  mechanical 
work,  if  power  is  to  be  obtained. 

I  realized  what  a  wonderful  thing  it  would  be, 
if  I  could  send  out  electric  corpuscles  in  one 
steady  stream,  instead  of  wasting  so  much  power 
in  projecting  them  in  all  directions.  It  takes  one 
thousand  times  more  power  to  send  a  message  by 
wireless  telegraph  than  by  wire.  With  the  wire 
line  energy  is  spent  in  earning  money  for  first 
cost;  in  the  wireless  system,  it  is  spent  in  pro- 
viding daily  power. 

I  hope  that  some  keen  mind  will  study  out  a 
way  to  keep  one's  thoughts  moving  in  one  defi- 
nite direction.  When  the  above  facts  become 
generally  known,  some  scientist  will  invent  a  ma- 
chine which  will  pick  up  these  wireless  waves  and 
use  them  for  the  personal  transmission  of  mes- 

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sages  between  two  or  more  individuals.  This 
machine  will  be  so  small  that  it  can  be  carried  in 
the  pocket ;  yet  it  will  enable  one  to  talk  with  his 
friends  at  any  time  and  at  any  distance.  This  is 
no  idle  dream,  for  if  I  can  raise  another's  tem- 
perature at  a  distance  of  one  thousand  miles,  even 
though  I  only  liberate  the  power  in  his  body,  that 
rise  can  be  made  to  mean  a  word  or  a  whole 
sentence.  There  is  the  foundation  to  work  on. 
The  first  proofs  are  so  simple  that  I  fear  that  the 
men  who  can  really  make  such  instruments  will 
overlook  their  value,  I  do  not  know  of  any  case 
where  ideas  have  been  conveyed  from  one  to 
another,  through  the  medium  of  the  mind,  in 
such  a  manner  that  they  could  be  repeated  at  will. 
This  simple  experiment  opens  the  way  to  an  ex- 
planation of  all  phenomena  connected  with  mind- 
reading,  spiritism,  occult  science,  and  mental  tele- 
pathy. 

When  I  was  making  my  experiments  between 
Carmel-by-the-Sea  and  San  Francisco,  I  found 
that  I  became  very  much  exhausted  at  times.  This 
fact  started  me  on  a  new  line  of  thought,  and  I 
began  a  series  of  experiments,  which,  while  not 
conclusive,  lead  in  the  right  direction.  It  oc- 
curred to  me  that  if  I  were  sending  out  elec- 
tricity all  the  time,  it  might  be  possible  that  I 
did  not  get  a  return  fast  enough  to  keep  up  the 
normal  supply.     Electricity  and  magnetism  are 

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omnipresent.  They  penetrate  some  materials 
more  than  others.  It  seemed  reasonable  that  the 
body  may  not  always  get  a  proper  amount  back. 
When  quite  exhausted  from  this  kind  of  work, 
I  took  hold  of  the  water-pipe  to  get  a  return 
flow.  Immediately  I  felt  a  soothed  feeling  creep- 
ing over  me,  just  as  one  feels,  who  takes  food 
after  a  fast.  I  made  arrangements  for  experi- 
ments to  prove  this  apparent  fact  by  making  a 
series  of  alternate  tests  with  the  body  connected 
and  disconnected  with  the  ground.  So  far  the 
tests  have  not  proved  to  me  positively  that  my 
reasoning  is  correct  along  that  line.  In  the 
greater  number  of  the  tests,  however,  after  a  long 
concentration  of  mind,  the  body  being  discon- 
nected with  the  ground,  I  found  that  my  tem- 
perature had  fallen.  This  would  seem  to  prove 
the  theory. 

The  life  within  us  which  controls  the  opening 
and  closing  of  the  pores  of  the  skin,  soon  learns 
to  open  them  and  let  the  heat  off,  and  vice  versa. 
This  makes  it  rather  difficult  to  get  a  long  series 
of  tests  which  would  prove  the  facts  beyond  a 
doubt.  I  hope  that  those  who  have  the  means 
to  make  such  tests  properly  will  become  inter- 
ested enough  to  do  so.  Not  being  of  a  technical 
turn  of  mind,  myself,  such  work  does  not  appeal 
to  me,  even  if  I  were  in  a  position  to  make  them. 

The  great  Napoleon,  with  several  of  his  gen- 

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erals,  was  once  crossing  French  fields.  That  par- 
ticular part  of  the  country  was  unfamiliar  to 
them  all.  Napoleon  stopped  and  asked  a  little 
peasant  girl,  who  was  playing  by  the  roadside,  to 
direct  him  to  a  certain  cross-road.  The  little 
girl,  who  had  lived  there  all  her  life,  had  the 
necessary  knowledge.  That  knowledge  changed 
the  destinies  of  nations.  In  the  matter  now  in 
hand,  I,  like  the  little  girl,  have  the  knowledge  to 
point  out  the  way. 

In  treating  a  person  for  a  very  bad  organic 
disease,  I  have  found  that,  if  I  endeavor  to  send 
heat  directly  to  the  weak  part,  the  temperature 
will  fall.  I  have  had  it  drop  as  much  as  one- 
half  of  a  degree.  I  account  for  it  in  this  way : — 
The  normal  temperature  was  taken  with  the  in- 
strument under  the  tongue.  By  switching  all  the 
heat  possible  to  the  diseased  part,  I  have  drawn 
the  blood  thither  in  great  quantities,  and  have,  of 
course,  lowered  the  temperature  under  the  tongue 
for  a  few  moments.  When  I  first  noticed  this,  I 
thought  it  was  a  great  discovery ;  but  later,  upon 
trying  it  with  a  well  person,  I  found  the  drop  so 
small  that  all  my  hopes  were  crushed  for  the 
time. 

Since  then  I  have  discovered  a  positive  way  to 
do  that  same  thing.  Further  on  I  will  make  it 
plain,  for  it  has  a  very  important  bearing  upon 
the  cure  of  many  diseases. 

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If  it  is  necessary  to  connect  electric  machines 
with  the  earth  it  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the 
human  machines  should  likewise  be  grounded. 
Consider  the  millions  of  hustling  business  men 
wTho  work  in  almost  air-tight  offices,  insulated 
from  all  inflow  of  magnetism  from  the  earth.  Is 
it  any  wonder  that  eight  men  out  of  every  ten 
have  what  is  called  "nerves"? 

There  is  no  way  for  men  to  get  a  proper  sup- 
ply of  electricity  from  the  air.  From  the  tests  I 
have  made,  I  am  fully  convinced  that  every  office 
should  be  supplied  with  a  ground  connection. 
Foot-boards,  seats,  and  foot-wear  should  have 
continuous  connection  therewith;  and  that  every 
person  should  be  grounded  when  in  bed. 

When  water  collects  in  the  mountains  it  starts 
at  once  trying  to  get  back  to  its  source,  the 
ocean.  When  a  human  being  is  born  into  the 
world,  he  too  starts  on  that  long  journey  back  to 
his  ocean,  Heaven.  When  the  clouds  become 
surcharged  with  electricity,  that,  too,  gets  back 
to  its  ocean,  the  earth,  in  the  form  of  the  electric 
bolt. 


The  earth  is  the  reservoir  whence  the  clouds 
get  overcharged.  Otherwise  it  would  not  flow 
back.  If  it  were  not  for  this,  human  beings 
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earth  long  ago,  because  of  their  ignorance  dis- 
played in  insulating  the  body  entirely  from  the 
mother  earth.  It  is  no  wonder  that  men  have 
found  it  refreshing  to  go  back  to  nature  by 
doing  away  with  foot-wear  and  clothes.  One 
does  not  have  to  go  back  to  Adam  to  overcome 
that  ignorance. 

The  water  which  collects  on  the  mountains  can 
not  get  back  to  the  ocean  until  it  has  a  tremen- 
dous pressure  to  force  it  back.  The  difference 
in  atmospheric  pressure  or  potential,  draws  the 
magnetism  from  the  earth,  and  it  must  have  pres- 
sure to  force  it  back.  I  have  already  made  the 
assertion  that  food  provides  in  a  like  manner  a 
difference  of  potential  in  the  body,  which  causes 
the  inflow.  The  mind,  with  practice,  can  make 
more  or  less  pressure  to  send  out  the  electric 
waves,  which  always  flow  to  the  point  of  least 
resistance,  the  air.  The  assertion  has  been  made 
that  one  should  be  insulated  from  the  earth  in 
order  to  prevent  the  loss  of  magnetism;  but  the 
argument  does  not  seem  to  hold,  when  paralleled 
with  natural  phenomena.  Electric  stimulus  is  the 
means  through  which  the  mind  acts  to  move  the 
body  in  all  its  parts.  The  mind  speaks  a  com- 
mand into  the  gray  matter  of  the  cerebrum.  It  is 
conveyed  to  the  cerebellum,  from  where  it  is 
sent  through  the  nerve  wires  to  the  stations  of 
gray  matter  in  all  the  principal  parts  of  the  body, 

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which  we  may  call  the  superintending  offices. 
Thence  it  is  sent  to  the  foremen  of  the  cell  life  in 
the  detailed  parts. 

Human  business  affairs  are  conducted  in  a  like 
manner.  No  business  can  succeed  without  this 
mode  of  procedure.  "Now,"  I  ask,  "did  the  body- 
get  its  business  methods  from  the  way  human 
affairs  are  arranged  on  the  outside?"  No!  It 
could  not  be  so!  We  unconsciously  copy  on  the 
outside  just  what  is  done  on  the  inside.  The 
mind  knew  how  to  conduct  the  business  of  the 
body  long  before  it  had  any  outside  business  to 
perform.  When  the  time  came  to  do  business 
outside,  the  mind  worked  along  the  same  lines. 

If  you  admit  that  such  reasoning  is  good  com- 
mon sense,  that  the  mind,  in  doing  something 
it  has  not  before  done,  will  adopt  its  old  methods, 
as  in  the  above  case,  then,  when  I  tell  you  that 
I  can  make  the  same  mind,  corpuscles  and  cel- 
lular life,  attack  and  destroy  the  body's  deadly 
enemy,  and  that  these  work  by  an  order  given, 
and  perform  just  as  fine  operations  in  adjusting 
the  complicated  machinery  to  produce  health  as 
they  do  when  one  plays  the  piano  or  makes  any 
other  of  the  wonderful  movements  the  body  is 
capable  of,  it  should  not  be  doubted. 

Consider  the  wonderful  new  method  of  opera- 
ting a  typewriter  without  looking  at  the  keys. 
The  mind  is  reading  the  stenographic  notes  while 

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the  fingers  move  over  the  keyboard  with  hardly 
ever  a  mistake. 

The  statement  is  often  made  that  the  heart 
performs  a  wonderful  feat  in  running  a  whole 
lifetime  without  a  stop.  Yet  that  same  feat  is 
seen  in  everyday  life  with  mention  never  made  of 
it.  A  great  railroad  system,  for  example,  runs 
its  trains  on  schedule  time  for  years.  No  one 
ever  writes  about  that,  because  we  all  know  the 
details.  We  know  that  the  same  locomotive  does 
not  run  all  those  years.  It  may  have  been  re- 
built several  times.  So,  too,  with  the  cars  and 
rolling  stock.  In  just  this  manner  the  heart  is 
repaired  by  the  little  workers,  who  are  intelligent 
and  know  the  "how"  of  doing  it. 

To  refer  again  to  our  great  railroad  system — 
the  same  crew  does  not  work  night  and  day. 
There  is  the  night  crew  as  well  as  the  day  crew, 
both  composed  of  trained  workmen.  To  one 
who  sat  on  a  high  place,  day  after  day,  watching 
the  trains  come  and  go,  and  who  did  not  know 
how  they  were  run,  it  might  seem  miraculous. 
That  is  just  our  case  when  we  look  at  the  work- 
ings of  our  body,  not  knowing  the  details.  There 
are  two  crews  at  work  in  our  body  and  perhaps 
three,  which  take  their  shift  as  the  workmen  on 
the  railroad.  Whether  they  are  union  or  non- 
union I  cannot  say. 

One  who  desires  to  get  up  at  a  certain  time  in 

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the  morning  can  give  an  order  to  his  night  crew 
to  that  effect  and,  invariably,  if  he  has  not  been 
slothful  in  his  habits,  they  will  awaken  him  in 
time.  I  have  been  for  months  without  a  clock 
or  watch  and  never  failed  to  get  up  on  time. 
Very  few  people  have  ever  stopped  to  ask'  how 
this  feat  is  performed. 

In  the  light  of  all  these  arguments,  which  are 
proof  against  being  shelved,  is  it  asking  too 
much  of  a  plain  American  citizen  to  believe  that 
he  can  order  his  little  crews  of  workmen  around 
to  keep  clean  the  inside  of  his  body  as  well  as 
the  outside?  Must  he  run  to  another  every  time 
he  desires  or  needs  an  inside  bath? 

I  will  exclude  from  this  question  all  cases  of 
broken  limbs  or  other  parts  deranged  from  acci- 
dents. One  must  use  common  sense  in  all  things. 
I  will  also  make  this  apparently  preposterous 
statement — namely,  that  one  might  just  as  well 
go  to  a  physician  who  gives  good  medicine  as  to 
a  mind  doctor  or  a  metaphysical  healer. 

After  a  practice  of  about  four  years  with  this 
particular  method  of  curing,  I  have  found  that 
it  is  impossible  for  me  to  make  anyone  immune 
from  sickness.  The  same  patients  are  always 
coming  back  with  new  or  old  troubles  for  me  to 
treat.  I  knew  that  this  was  true  with  physicians 
of  the  regular  schools,  but  did  not  suspect  that 
it  could  be  true  with  this  seeming  miraculous 

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way.  I  have  taken  pains  to  look  into  the  matter 
and  find  that  every  one  of  the  modern  mind-cure 
doctors,  whether  religious  or  otherwise,  have  the 
same  patients  always  coming  back  for  more 
mind  "dope." 

If  anyone  doubts  my  statement,  let  him  go  to 
the  Christian  Science  healers  and  watch.  Or  he 
may  come  to  me  and  see  who  take  the  most  treat- 
ments. In  view  of  these  facts  I  have  made  up 
my  mind  to  the  right  mode  of  procedure.  First, 
teach  the  rising  generation,  beginning  at  about 
the  age  of  eight,  to  cure  their  own  little  ills,  and 
impress  it  upon  their  minds  from  that  age  till 
they  leave  school,  that  they,  and  only  they,  can 
cure  themselves  of  bodily,  as  well  as  of  mental 
trouble,  which  has  its  cause  in  the  brain. 

Although  the  time  will  probably  never  come 
when  we  will  be  immune  from  bodily  sickness 
without  a  constant  watchfulness  on  our  part,  still 
I  believe  that  we  can,  by  long  years  of  practice, 
so  educate  the  intelligent  life  within  us  that  that 
watchfulness  to  keep  out  the  enemy  will  go  on 
without  more  conscious  effort  on  our  part  than 
we  expend  in  the  effort  of  walking% 

Outside  attacks  on  the  body  from  flies,  fleas, 
mosquitoes  and  different  kinds  of  bacteria  will 
always  be  present.  As  I  have  said  in  my  former 
work,  opposition  seems  necessary  to  our  develop- 
ment.    We  must   always   have   enough   reserve 

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power  within  us  to  keep  control  in  our  own  hands 
— just  enough  and  no  more,  for  then  we  should 
deteriorate. 

VI. 

Why  do  patients  always  come  back  for  more 
medicine  of  any  kind?  In  metaphysical  healing 
we  give  the  patient  heat  from  electric  waves  which 
are  produced  by  the  flesh's  acting  as  resisting 
coil  to  the  flow  of  the  current.  Then  we  order 
the  corpuscles  to  the  disease  center  to  destroy 
the  germs.  If  to-day  we  give  one-fifth  of  a  de- 
gree of  heat  more  than  usual  to  get  the  corpuscles 
to  act,  to-morrow  we  must  give  as  much  before 
they  will  go  to  work.  We  cannot  tell  when  to 
stop  sending  heat  to  another's  body,  so  that  we 
may  send  to-day  too  much  or  too  little  with  cor- 
responding results. 

The  corpuscles  and  cellular  life  act  in  the  same 
way  in  respect  to  our  eating  or  drinking  as  to  our 
taking  medicine.  They  will  wait  every  time  for 
anything  that  does  their  work  for  them  by  either 
destroying  the  germs,  or  by  making  them,  them- 
selves, stronger  to  do  it.  That  is  just  what 
human  beings  will  do  in  everyday  life,  as  all  can 
testify.  This  again  serves  to  show  how  closely 
we,  in  the  affairs  of  life,  follow  the  example 
within  us.  If  one  forms  the  habit  of  eating 
heavily,  the  little  fellows  will  make  a  great  fuss 

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if  they  do  not  get  as  much  at  each  meal  there- 
after. They  will  gnaw  and  scratch  until  one 
thinks  he  must  have  the  usual  quantity.  The 
worst  is  that  they  keep  asking  for  a  little  extra 
every  day.  This  is  true  with  all  kinds  of  stimu- 
lants and  with  smoking. 

Another  man  can  never  tell  just  how  much  you 
can  eat  or  drink,  without  getting  more  than  is 
necessary  to  do  your  work.  If  another  could  feed 
you  and  give  you  drink  when  distant  from  you, 
it  would  be  about  parallel  with  this  healing 
another  perfectly.  Even  when  giving  mind  cure 
to  one  present,  the  effects  are  the  same,  unless 
the  patient  is  alive  to  how  it  is  being  done  and 
knows  just  when  to  call  a  halt. 

You  alone  can  with  safety  treat  yourself.  You 
alone  can  tell  to  a  nicety  zvhen  the  pain  is  gone,  or 
the  lost  parts  rebuilt. 

Here  I  will  repeat.  The  cure  comes,  in  the 
first  instance,  from  the  heat  caused  by  the  body's 
resistance  to  the  flow  of  the  current,  which  heat, 
the  germs  as  well  as  the  corpuscles  and  cellular 
life  love,  so  that  it  alone  cannot  be  depended  upon 
to  make  the  cures.  It  may  even,  by  making  both 
sides  more  vigorous,  cause  the  battle  to  rage  with 
greater  discomfort  to  the  patient. 

God  has  placed  you  in  charge  of  your  body, 
and  if  the  battle  is  going  on,  you  have  it  in  your 
power  to  decide  the  issues  of  the  day,  by  backing 

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up  the  little  fighters  in  your  system  with  com- 
mands that  will  make  them  work  harder.  It  is 
ever  the  same  in  actual  warfare;  the  commander 
who  watches  the  tide  of  battle  most  carefully, 
who  keeps  his  soldiers  well  supplied  with  food 
and  ammunition,  and  who  at  the  right  moment 
rushes  in  his  reserves  most  promptly,  wins  the 
day. 

I  proved  in  my  experiments  with  the  thermome- 
ter that  the  waves  go  out  in  all  directions.  To 
satisfy  myself  that  heat  alone  does  not  make  the 
cures  (although  it  will  do  so  under  some  condi- 
tions) I  sent  the  waves  to  another's  body  until 
his  temperature  was  raised.  Still  the  pain  was 
not  checked.  Either  immediately  or  after  some 
time  I  would  give  the  command  for  the  fighters 
to  get  busy,  and  as  soon  as  I  did  so  the  pain 
ceased. 

Again  I  experimented  with  two  patients.  In 
one  case  I  ordered  the  corpuscles  to  the  diseased 
spot  and  the  pain  stopped,  but  in  the  other  case 
there  was  no  change  at  this  order  except  greater 
heat.  At  another  time,  when  I  gave  commands  to 
the  little  fighters,  one  after  the  other,  both 
patients  got  relief. 

I  am  firmly  convinced  that  under  this  new  order 
of  things  fires  in  the  house  should  be  discontinued 
except  for  cooking  purposes.  This  may  seem  like 
a  wild  idea  until  you  accept  the  theory  that  to 

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keep  healthy  one  must  keep  his  little  fighters  at 
an  even  temperature.  One  catches  cold  from  a 
falling  temperature,  because  the  fighters  desert 
their  posts  to  get  inside,  where  it  is  warmer. 
Now,  consider  what  is  continually  happening  in 
every  household.  A  fire  is  burning  in  one  room 
while  there  is  none  in  the  others.  Every  time  a 
door  is  opened  between  the  heated  room  and  the 
others  a  draught  is  created.  If  the  family  had 
the  knowledge  which  I  have  given  in  my  previous 
work,  matters  would  not  be  so  bad,  for  then  they 
would  themselves  supply  the  lost  heat.  But 
where  they  have  no  protection,  it  is  not  strange 
that  nearly  everyone  is  diseased. 

I  do  not  advocate  going  to  extremes  and  trying 
to  do  entirely  without  fires.  But  no  doubt  that  is 
the  ideal  way  to  live. 

Each  of  us  has  a  furnace  within  himself,  which 
he  can  regulate  to  suit  all  conditions.  If  he  is 
cold  he  can  heat  the  body  up  in  a  few^rninutes. 
by  a  few  deep  breaths  or  by  thinking  of  the  heart 
for  a  few  minutes,  or  both.  If  you  do  not  believe 
this,  try  it  and  you  will  be  convinced.  This  is  the 
only  ideal  way  to  get  heat.  Artificial  external 
heat  does  not  do  the  good  that  we  intend  it  should. 
The  sun's  heat  seems  ideal.  Its  light  travels  at 
the  rate  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand 
miles  per  second,  and  the  blow  from  such  terrific 
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— that  is  to  say,  heat  from  the  blow  is  evenly 
distributed.  Now  that  is  true  likewise  of  the  heat 
generated  within  us.  The  artificial  heat  on  the 
contrary  seems  to  warm  the  surface  too  much, 
while  the  inner  body  remains  relatively  cold. 

If  you  feel  cold  it  is  caused  usually  by  one  of 
three  derangements  of  your  machinery,  and  these 
you  can  correct.  The  first  is  a  poor  circulation, 
due  to  faulty  working  of  the  heart;  the  sec- 
ond is  a  clogging  of  the  pipe  lines  (arteries  and 
veins),  which  must  be  cleared  of  obstructions; 
the  third  is  the  failure  of  the  regulators  at  each 
pore  of  the  skin  to  close  the  valves  sufficiently. 
This  last  is  a  mechanical  feat  easy  to  understand. 
Each  pore  is  a  heat  vent  or  waste-pipe  and  there 
are  millions  of  them.  If  they  fail  to  open  and 
close  the  valves  properly,  the  whole  system  gives 
notice  of  the  mistake  at  once. 

In  a  fever  too  much  heat  is  produced  in  the 
body.  The  cellular  life  in  the  valves  will  not 
open  them  enough,  and,  consequently,  you  are 
burning  up.  When  you  are  cold,  if  other  condi- 
tions are  right,  these  valve  regulators  are  neglect- 
ing their  work.  You  can  control  them  just  as 
you  can  the  white  corpuscles.  In  both  cases  it 
takes  practice,  of  perhaps  a  week,  to  get  a  start 
that  will  give  you  faith  in  the  work,  or  even,  pos- 
sibly, of  several  months.  I  worked  about  three 
months   before   I    got   any   results;   but   I    was 

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without  assistance.  You  should  be  able  to  make 
some  showing  in  a  shorter  time. 

You  can  regulate  your  temperature  to  a  nicety 
by  giving  orders  to  the  proper  department.  If 
your  heart  is  bad,  send  your  thoughts  to  it  for 
some  ten  minutes  or  more,  with  an  order  to  the 
corpuscles  to  fight  the  germs  that  are  causing  the 
trouble.  If  it  is  the  pipe  lines  that  are  failing  in 
their  duty,  order  the  corpuscles  to  remove  all  ob- 
structions, as  you  move  your  thoughts  up  and 
down  their  length. 

In  the  coldest  country,  if  you  have  food  within 
you,  you  can  have  all  the  heat  necessary  for  com- 
fort, simply  by  regulating  your  "dampers." 

Remember  that  the  germs  too,  love  the  heat, 
and  will  always  be  found  thickest  on  the  outside, 
where  houses  are  kept  nice  and  warm,  and  in- 
side the  body  on  the  arteries  and  veins  near  the 
heart.  Tests  on  the  Pullman  palace  and  tourist 
coaches  show  more  danger  from  disease  in  the 
palace  sleepers.  Houses  with  the  carpets  tacked 
down  are  much  more  dangerous  than  those  with 
removable  rugs  only.  Careful  housewives  all  use 
the  rugs. 

Why  is  it  thought  necessary  to  cook  every- 
thing we  eat  ?  Because  fire  is  the  only  thing  that 
destroys  bacteria  without  injuring  us.  It  is  espe- 
cially necessary  to  subject  meat  and  milk  to  a 
temperature  of  212  degrees  before  using. 

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VII. 

After  practicing  my  discovery  about  three  and 
one-half  years,  getting  rid  of  nearly  all  my  own 
troubles  and  curing  those  of  many  others,  absent 
and  present,  I  came  upon  the  track  of  another 
great  discovery — a  discovery  so  far-reaching,  so 
far  beyond  anything  I  ever  dared  to  dream  of 
that  I  almost  hesitate  to  give  it  to  the  public.  I 
have  made  a  solemn  promise  to  myself  that  I  will 
not  yield  to  the  ever  present  temptation  to  keep 
all  discoveries  secret  and  play  the  little  god  with 
people,  but  that  I  will  give  every  one  to  the  public 
as  freely  as  I  can. 

All  men  are  diseased,  and  that  means  that  all 
would  pay  tribute  to  me  if  I  organized  a  healing 
trust.  Even  the  babies  would  have  to  contribute 
their  mite  toward  filling  my  coffers. 

In  many  works  on  new  thought  we  are  told  to 
concentrate  our  minds  on  the  pain,  as  that  seems 
to  bring  relief  most  quickly.  Mr.  Hudson,  in  his 
many  excellent  works,  advises  this.  Although  I 
had  never  read  a  new  thought  book  until  after  I 
had  published  my  first  work,  I  had  soon  found 
out  that  same  fact,  as  recorded  in  my  "Mental 
Therapeutics,  or  How  to  Cure  All  Diseases  With 
the  Mind."  It  was  the  practice  of  that  idea  which 
has  led  to  these  further  discoveries. 

Having  been  in  mechanics  all  my  life,  I  came 
to  these  subjects  with  the  fixed  idea  that  there  is 

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no  such  thing  as  a  mystery.  In  the  handling  of 
machinery  one  must  know  the  "whys"  and 
"wherefores"  or  his  place  will  soon  be  filled  by 
someone  who  does.  I  learned  to  notice  little 
things  because  I  found  that  almost  invariably  they 
led  to  great  ones.  I  was  not  born  an  inventor, 
but  acquired  a  love  for  that  work.  I  discovered 
that  it  was  impossible  for  man  to  conceive  of  an 
idea  which  was  entirely  new.  Every  new  idea  is 
built  up  from  a  foundation  partially  composed  of 
old  ones.  That  is  the  way  the  world  gains  knowl- 
edge. If  you  do  not  believe  this,  just  try  once  to 
get  a  thought  entirely  independent  of  any  other 
thought  ever  expressed. 

The  object  of  this  little  digression  is  to  show 
you  that  what  I  am  going  to  disclose  is  builded 
from  old  thoughts.  Like  Columbus,  we  are 
reaching  out  over  the  unknown  ocean,  beyond 
all  who  have  gone  before.  The  beautiful  coral 
islands  are  built  in  the  same  manner.  Cell  after 
cell  reaches  upward  a  little  beyond  its  fellow 
workmen  till  God's  sunlight  is  reached.  They 
did  not  know  for  what  they  were  building — 
neither  do  we. 

The  spiritist,  the  telepathist,  the  mind-reader, 
and  the  occultist  have  been  my  co-workers  in  try- 
ing to  reach  the  sunlight.  Therefore  I  desire  to 
acknowledge  my  debt  to  them  all. 

In  the  early  part  of  1908  I  began  to  take  notice 
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of  little  things  connected  with  my  work  when 
trying  to  help  others.  In  what  follows  do  not 
think  I  had  discovered  a  "gift"  within  me.  Re- 
member that  for  about  three  and  one-half  years 
I  had  been  practicing  night  and  day  the  sending 
of  electric  force  to  others.  In  that  time  I  had 
been  learning  a  trade,  or  profession,  as  it  were. 
Each  one  of  you  may  hope  to  do  the  same  if  you 
have  the  ability  to  work  and  the  requisite  tenacity 
of  purpose.  It  need  not  take  you  so  long  because 
you  will  have  teachers  who  can  show  you  short 
cuts. 

The  starting  point  of  my  new  discoveries  came 
one  day  when  I  was  thinking  of  a  certain  person's 
diseased  lung.  When  one  knows  that  a  person 
has  a  bad  lung  he  will  naturally  see  the  picture 
with  some  kind  of  a  cloud,  because  he  knows  be- 
forehand that  it  is  there.  But  this  day  I  saw  the 
diseased  part  with  what  might  be  called  a  halo,  or 
a  bright  ring  of  light  around  it.  This  was  so 
peculiar  that  I  was  immediately  on  the  alert,  like 
a  detective  when  he  gets  a  clue.  I  never  dreamed 
of  such  a  thing  as  its  being  supernatural  or 
spiritual. 

I  studied  night  and  day,  feeling  sure  that  I  was 
on  the  verge  of  a  great  discovery.  The  lung 
looked  to  me  just  as  an  actor  does  on  the  stage 
when  the  footlights  are  out  and  the  electric  ma- 
chine throws  the  white  light  around  him.     The 

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first  time  it  did  not  last  long,  nor  did  it  always 
come  when  I  tried  to  get  that  picture.  But  after 
that  first  time  it  seemed  to  come  and  go  at  will 
whenever  I  was  thinking  of  an  internal  trouble. 

I  noticed  too  that  when  I  got  a  picture  of  a 
disease  it  looked  black,  but  that  if  I  switched  my 
thoughts  to  a  person  whom  I  did  not  know  to  be 
without  such  disease  that  part  looked  normal  in 
color.  This  was  really  the  entering  wedge,  for  I 
felt  sure  at  once  that  I  was  seeing  the  diseased 
part.  I  proved  the  truth  of  my  surmise  by  trying 
whether  or  not  I  could  locate  different  persons' 
troubles  without  previous  knowledge  of  them.  I 
never  made  a  mistake  in  diagnosis  of  prominent 
troubles. 

Looking  at  the  outside  of  an  absent  person  to 
locate  a  trouble  I  could  make  no  headway;  but 
on  the  inside  I  could  see  at  once  the  black  where 
the  disease  was  located.  I  studied  a  long  time 
over  this  before  reaching  a  solution.  The  first 
ray  of  intelligence  came  from  noticing  how  simi- 
lar my  mental  pictures  were  to  X-ray  ones,  given 
in  works  on  surgery. 

Another  curious  thing  was  that  if  I  tried  to 
look  at  a  stomach  from  a  back  view,  I  would  not 
see  the  flesh  of  the  back  or  the  backbone  at  all. 
Of  all  the  hard  problems  this  has  been  the  most 
trying.  The  failure  to  solve  it  nearly  made  me 
give  up  the  whole  theory,  as  I  began  to  think  the 

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facts  supernatural.  You  will  not  condemn  me 
in  this,  for  there  are  many  bright  men  in  the  pres- 
ent day  who  would  so  regard  them  without 
argument. 

VIII. 

Before  Christ  came  to  dwell  upon  the  earth, 
the  whole  Jewish  nation  were  expecting  such  an 
event,  but  never  dreamed  of  it  except  as  a  coming 
in  glory  and  pomp.  That  He  would  come  as  just 
a  poor  little  boy  could  not  be !  That  He  would 
work  with  His  hands  and  make  them  rough  and 
calloused  was  preposterous !  So  when  He  did 
come,  they,  not  discerning,  missed  the  sunlight  of 
knowing  their  Master's  presence. 

You  may  have  noticed  how,  even  in  these  last 
few  months  of  1908,  some  of  our  greatest  writers 
are  predicting  the  coming  of  a  wonderful  change 
to  the  world,  and  that  it  is  already  understood  to 
be  one  of  great  glory.  I  refer  to  the  occult  forces 
which  have  been  so  much  written  about  and  so 
little  understood.  All  one  must  do,  we  are  told, 
is  to  go  into  retirement  and  place  himself  in  a  re- 
ceptive mood  and  the  mysterious  force  will  come. 
But  how  are  we  to  use  such  advice — we  who  are 
only  human  beings  ?  Perhaps  if  we  were  all  highly 
educated  in  mystic  things  we  might;  but  even 
then  of  what  use  is  it  to  mankind  in  general  if  the 
laws  are  not  found  which  govern  it?    In  looking 

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over  the  whole  past  of  the  people  of  the  earth 
we  can  see  that  nothing  has  ever  come  to  them 
of  lasting  good  except  by  slow  human  progress, 
taught  by  experience. 

I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  comparing 
myself  and  work  with  the  wonderful  men  of  the 
past  and  their  achievements.  But  I  know  that  I 
have  made  a  great  discovery,  which  is  simple, 
easy  to  comprehend,  and  will  explain  many  mys- 
teries when  really  scientific  minds  have  worked 
out  the  laws  which  govern  the  principle. 

Without  doubt  the  time  has  arrived  when  the 
mysteries  of  so-called  occult  forces  must  fade  be- 
fore the  light  of  scientific  investigation.  If  I  can 
assist  even  in  dispelling  the  fog  of  mystery  once, 
that  alone  will  have  been  worth  living  for. 

I  do  not  wish  to  convey  the  idea  that  God  has 
nothing  to  do  with  mind-curing,  as  explained  in 
my  first  work,  or  that  He  will  not  come  to  you 
in  a  direct  manner  through  occult  forces  or  spirit 
ones.  But  I  know  that  he  did  not  come  to  the 
Jews  as  they  expected ;  and  that  it  is  very  doubt- 
ful if  He  will  ever  come  to  you  in  any  other  way 
than  through  material  forms  and  human  beings. 
You  are  out  of  a  job,  for  instance,  or  hungry,  and 
lie  down  by  the  wayside,  waiting  for  Him  to 
bring  you  a  loaf  of  bread  or  a  job.  Ah!  your 
coat  will  be  threadbare  before  He  does.  On  the 
other  hand,  suppose  you  get  up  and  rustle,  then 

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you  will  meet  some  kindly  man  who  will  do  some- 
thing for  you.  If  you  are  undiscerning  you  will 
pass  along,  your  faith  gone,  looking  no  more  to 
God,  because  He  did  not  come  to  you  as  you  ex- 
pected. You  do  not  see  God's  will  in  the  kindly 
act. 

When  I  began  to  diagnose  it  took  me  several 
days  to  get  a  picture  of  the  trouble.  The  cause  of 
this  I  will  explain  later.  The  first  thoroughly 
satisfactory  test  case  I  had  was  of  one  who  was 
down  with  consumption.  I  told  him  that  the 
lower  parts  of  both  lungs  were  affected,  the  right 
one  more  than  the  left ;  also  that  the  right  one 
had  a  rather  large  black  spot  in  the  center.  He, 
not  believing  that  I  could  see  the  trouble,  went  to 
his  physician,  to  prove  whether  I  was  right  or 
wrong.  The  physician  told  him  that  his  left  lung 
was  the  bad  one.  To  prove  that  I  was  right,  I 
asked  him  how  he  knew  that  he  had  a  pair  of 
lungs.  He  replied  that  he  knew  by  the  breathing. 
Now,  if  you  stop  to  think,  you  will  see  that  that 
is  no  proof.  I  requested  him  to  cough  hard  and 
to  tell  me  where  it  hurt  him.  He  replied  at  once 
that  it  was  always  in  the  center  of  his  right  lung. 
I  asked  him  if  he  could  tell,  by  the  feeling  when 
he  coughed,  if  he  had  a  left  lung.  The  reply  was 
that  he  could  not.  If  lungs  are  sound  their  owner 
cannot  tell  he  has  them,  but  when  they  become 
sore,  he  soon  knows  it. 

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As  time  passed  I  saw  that  I  was  beginning  to 
be  able  to  diagnose  more  quickly.  By  the  first 
of  July,  1908,  I  was  able  to  tell  almost  instantly 
where  the  trouble  was.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that 
I  could  diagnose  the  minor  troubles  of  one's  body 
quickly — only  those  of  the  main  organs.  At  the 
present  time  I  can  locate  almost  any  trouble  or 
pain  inside  of  ten  minutes.  As  soon  as  I  found 
that  I  was  learning  to  do  this,  I  looked  at  the  optic 
nerves  of  my  own  eyes  to  see  if  they  were  all 
right.  I  did  not  think  they  were,  for  I  could  not 
yet  see  quite  as  well  by  electric  light  as  I  should. 
I  found  part  of  the  nerves  in  bad  shape.  It  was 
reflection  on  this  surprising  fact,  that  I  could  see 
my  own  optic  nerves,  that  solved  the  first  great 
mystery  in  this  discovery. 

You  who  read  this  will  say  at  once  that  I  saw 
clairvoyantly.  But  what  does  that  convey  to  one 
who  does  not  believe  in  mysteries?  What  does  it 
mean,  in  any  way  you  look  at  it?  It  means  just 
what  I  did  not  believe  in— a  mystery !  If  you  say 
that  it  is  a  supernatural  force,  the  result  is  the 
same.  If  you  say  that  it  is  spirits,  or  God  direct, 
it  is  still  the  same — a  mystery.  Remember  that 
God  is  continually  helping  you  through  human 
agencies,  but  rarely  in  a  more  direct  way. 

I  recall  an  incident  of  the  woods  of  western 
Washington.  Finding  myself  in  a  tight  place  dur- 
ing the  panic  of  1890-93,  I  took  the  job  of  assess- 
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ing  those  Washington  wilds  for  the  county  of 
Jefferson.  One  day  I  came  upon  an  old  Irishman 
out  there  in  the  woods,  in  his  dirt-floor  shanty, 
miles  from  all  other  human  beings.  The  rain 
was  coming  down  and  he  was  sick  in  bed.  All 
he  had  in  the  house  to  eat  was  potatoes  and  flour. 

I  saw  that  he  was  in  a  dying  condition,  and 
when  I  arrived  at  the  nearest  settler's,  about  fif- 
teen miles  away,  I  persuaded  them  to  go  for  him. 
They  took  him  in  a  canoe  about  fifteen  miles  down 
the  swift  river  Hohe  to  its  mouth,  then  north 
along  the  ocean  beach  to  Cape  Flattery,  where  a 
steamer  took  him  to  Port  Townsend.  Upon  my 
arrival  there  I  visited  him  in  the  Sisters'  Hospital, 
where  he  was  being  cared  for.  He  told  me  then 
that  he  had  always  felt  that  God  would  not  let 
him  die  out  there  in  the  woods  alone,  without  the 
last  rites  of  the  church.  He  lived  only  a  few  days 
after  that.  Now,  I  had  no  idea  that  I  was  on  any 
other  mission  than  the  assessing  of  the  district. 

When  a  great  railroad  or  steamship  line  is 
started,  we  think  that  it  is  done  for  gold  only — 
but  not  so!  We  must  not  wait  for  our  Lord's 
spiritual  coming  before  believing  in  His  daily 
help.  In  fact  He  is  continually  helping  in  ordi- 
nary ways. 

Right  here  in  Oakland  I  knew  a  man  who  got 
hard  up.  He  had  only  forty  cents  left  and  spent 
five  of  that  for  fare  to  San  Francisco,  where  he 

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hoped  to  find  work.  He  had  a  family  of  small 
children  and  was  worried  to  know  where  their 
living  would  come  from  on  the  morrow  unless  he 
secured  employment.  Just  as  he  was  about  going 
aboard  the  ferry  a  man  asked  him  for  help.  His 
left  hand  was  badly  injured  and  he  had  had  noth- 
ing to  eat  since  the  day  before.  Our  friend  felt 
of  his  thirty-five  cents  pretty  hard,  but  decided  to 
give  the  man  ten  cents,  as  he  seemed  worthy.  He 
was  in  San  Francisco  all  day  without  success  and 
made  his  way  home  in  great  dejection.  Upon 
reaching  the  house  he  learned  that  during  the  day 
a  cat  had  run  up  the  street,  had  come  through  his 
yard,  and  jumped  over  the  fence  in  the  back.  A 
lady  followed,  trying  to  catch  her  pet.  She  had 
asked  one  of  his  little  boys  to  find  it,  and,  upon 
his  success,  had  given  him  a  dollar  and  a  half. 
Who  do  you  think  it  was  that  really  gave  that 
family  the  money — money  that  tided  them  over 
the  pinch  till  the  father  got  work  ? 

As  soon  as  I  was  positive  that  I  was  really  see- 
ing the  diseased  parts,  I  began  to  study  how  to 
account  for  the  apparent  phenomenon.  As  I  said 
before,  I  noticed  the  likeness  between  these  and 
X-ray  pictures.  This  gave  me  a  clue  which  led 
to  the  solution.  In  X-ray  work  the  patient  is  so 
placed  that  the  sensitive  paper  is  beyond  him. 
The  picture  is  printed  in  much  the  same  way  as 
the  sun  casts  a  shadow.  That  is,  the  diseased 
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parts  or  foreign  substance  in  the  body  is  cast  upon 
the  paper  in  the  form  of  a  shadow. 

While  at  first  I  saw  only  the  shadow,  later  on  I 
began  to  see  the  flesh  colors  inside,  with  scarcely 
ever  a  halo.  I  suppose  you  all  know  how  a  picture 
is  taken  with  a  kodak.  The  light  strikes  the  ob- 
ject and  is  reflected  back,  leaving  the  imprint  on 
the  sensitive  paper.  Or,  to  make  it  a  little  plain- 
er: Suppose  you  desire  a  picture  of  a  ten-foot 
ring  on  the  front  of  your  house  transferred  to 
a  board  twenty  feet  square,  twenty  feet  away. 
This  board  we  will  paint  snow-white.  Then  we 
will  take  one  hundred  base-balls,  covered  with 
lampblack.  Now,  suppose  we  can  throw  them  at 
equal  distances  apart  to  divide  the  ten-foot  circle 
into  that  many  subdivisions.  These  balls,  re- 
bounding, will  strike  the  twenty-foot  board,  leav- 
ing the  imprint  of  the  circle  perfectly  formed  on 
the  board.  Light  acts  in  the  same  way  as  the 
balls,  in  the  kodak  work. 

While  my  mental  pictures  looked  much  like 
X-ray  work,  I  soon  found  that  the  manner  of 
getting  them  was  more  like  kodak  work.  In 
kodak  work  you  get  only  a  view  of  exposed  parts, 
while  in  my  pictures  I  get  any  view  desired.  So, 
you  see,  it  is  really  different  from  them  both  and, 
if  it  is  to  be  widely  used,  it  must  be  explained. 
It  was  this  remarkable  fact  that  almost  conquered 
me. 

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I  have  explained  previously  how,  by  practice,  I 
found  that  I  was  sending  out  stronger  and 
stronger  currents  of  electric  waves;  or,  in  other 
words,  that  I  was  daily  becoming  a  stronger 
dynamo,  sending  out  waves  further  and  further. 
In  just  this  way  it  was  that  they  finally  succeeded 
in  getting  a  wireless  message  across  from  New- 
foundland to  England. 

The  resistance  of  the  body  to  the  flow  of  the 
wireless  waves  develops  heat  and  light — not  the 
ordinary  light,  but  one  of  those  finer  rays,  such 
as  the  X-ray,  Finsen  ray  or  Roentgen  ray,  which 
rebounds  from  the  object  like  the  lamp-blacked 
balls.  You  all  know  that  the  diaphragm  of  your 
telephone  is  a  piece  of  steel  about  two  inches  in 
diameter  by  one  thirty-second  of  an  inch  in  thick- 
ness. 

Now,  I  wish  to  ask  you,  how  can  that  solid 
piece  of  steel  vibrate  ?  Does  it  move  as  a  whole  ? 
No,  it  does  not.  It  is  composed  of  molecules 
which  are  in  constant  motion.  When  you  whis- 
per into  it  the  molecules  arrange  themselves  to 
suit  the  pressure  of  the  sound  waves,  which  pro- 
duce the  electric  waves  which  pass  over  the  line. 

A  new  phonograph  has  been  invented,  though 
not  yet  perfected,  which  is  in  general  like  the 
diaphragm  of  your  telephone.  The  impressions 
from  sound  waves  are  in  it  and  it  can  be  sent  any- 
where by  mail  or  letter.    With  an  attached  appar- 

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atus  the  recipient  can  take  the  message  from  this 
piece  of  steel. 

The  brain  is  similar  to  this  steel ;  it  is  composed 
of  molecules,  which  are  impressed  with  electric 
force.  Exactly  how  this  is  done,  I  do  not  pre- 
tend to  know.  I  leave  that  to  scientific  minds  for 
definite  explanation.  Whether  the  picture  is  really 
printed  in  colors  or  only  in  black  and  white,  I  do 
not  know.  We  see  colored  pictures  by  the  flow  of 
light  through  the  optic  nerve  and  I  should  there- 
fore judge  that  the  impressions  are  actually 
colored  in  the  brain.  However,  it  does  not  matter 
in  so  far  as  our  work  in  hand  is  concerned.  The 
mind  is  in  some  way  enabled  to  know  the  colors 
through  the  impressions  given  by  light  force  to 
the  molecules  of  the  brain  matter. 

IX. 

The  picture  of  an  internal  organ  is  transferred 
through  distance,  according  to  the  power  exerted, 
to  the  sensitive  molecules  of  the  brain.  You  see 
the  organ  because  the  picture  of  it  is  really  in 
your  brain,  even  if  you  yourself  are  miles  away 
from  the  person  whose  troubles  you  are  diagnos- 
ing. At  first  I  saw  the  organs  very  indistinctly, 
because  I  had  not  learned  to  generate  power 
enough.  By  practice  the  mental  vision  became 
more  and  more  vivid. 

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of  seeing  external  injuries  when  the  party  was 
many  miles  away. 

Until  quite  recently  I  could  not  do  this.  Now 
I  have  proved  beyond  a  doubt  that  I  can  see  ex- 
ternal inflammation  as  well  as  internal.  It  simply 
requires  more  force,  or  a  stronger  current,  to  get 
the  light  from  an  outside  resistance.  The  weaker 
current,  in  passing  through  more  flesh,  produces 
the  same  light  as  a  stronger  one  passing  through 
less  flesh. 

But  you  will  ask  how  I  can  see  one  part  of  the 
human  anatomy  when  other  parts  are  in  front  of 
it.  Must  it  not  require  supernatural  powers  to  do 
that?  Not  at  all.  You  can  get  a  correct  picture 
of  something  you  never  saw  printed  in  your  brain 
either  by  the  ordinary  way  of  seeing  or  by  the  way 
I  have  described.  In  the  ordinary  way  the  picture 
is  printed  whether  the  mind  sees  it  or  not;  or  it 
can  be  printed  by  description,  through  its  like- 
ness to  another  object.  In  this  new  way  of  getting 
the  picture,  it  is  not  printed  unless  the  mind  sends 
out  the  electric  force. 

Now  remember  that  anything  you  know  about 
and  all  that  you  know  about  it  is  made  known  to 
the  mind  by  impressions  in  the  brain  which  we 
call  pictures.  If  I  desire  to  look  at  the  stomach 
from  a  back  view,  the  fine  light  prints  all  the 
parts  of  the  body  in  front  of  it,  so  that  not  only 
is  the  stomach  picture  hung  on  the  walls  of  my 

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brain,  but  also  all  the  objects  between  it  and  my- 
self. 

Let  us  suppose  that  you  go  into  a  picture  gal- 
lery for  a  certain  picture.  You  know  what  you 
want,  and  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  there  are 
thousands  of  pictures  there,  you  are  able,  by  look- 
ing at  the  index,  to  go  to  the  right  one  at  once. 
You  may  stand  there  all  day  viewing  it.  If  it 
were  a  statue  you  could  get  any  desired  view  by 
changing  your  position.  The  other  pictures  do 
not  prevent  you  from  seeing  this  one  alone  if  you 
so  will. 

Now,  do  you  not  see  the  point?  Everything 
you  ever  saw  is  in  your  brain  gallery.  The  mind 
is  really  you,  who  go  into  it  for  a  picture  or  im- 
pression. The  mind  knows  just  where  to  look  for 
it  and  either  turns  the  picture  around  for  dif- 
ferent views  or  shifts  its  own  viewpoint.  These 
mental  rays  of  light  are  so  strong  that  every  nerve 
and  tissue  in  the  stomach  is  transferred  by  wave 
impressions  to  the  brain  gallery.  You  can  section 
the  stomach  at  will  to  see  if  there  is  trouble  in  any 
part  of  it,  even  though  you  are  miles  from  the 
patient.  Therefore  you  have  any  view  of  any 
part  of  the  anatomy  of  man  at  hand  for  considera- 
tion. 

This  is  the  most  wonderful  of  all  the  discoveries 
I  have  yet  made  known  to  you. 

It  is  so  far-reaching  that  I  hesitate  to  call  your 

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attention  to  all  that  it  means,  until  I  have  proved 
each  seeming  fact  beyond  a  doubt. 

Within  the  last  month  I  have  noticed  at  times, 
when  diagnosing,  that  the  features  of  the  patient 
will  bob  into  sight  for  an  instant,  looking  per- 
fectly natural.  You  will  all  remember  having 
had  the  same  experience  at  times  when  thinking 
of  an  absent  friend.  I  notice  the  same  thing  also 
in  regard  to  the  hands  and  feet.  I  actually  see 
them  as  if  they  were  present.  This  vividness  is 
growing  daily.  It  is  because  almost  all  my  time 
is  spent  in  the  attempt  to  cure  some  one,  with  full 
brain  knowledge  of  what  I  am  after.  In  this  way 
I  am  gradually  becoming  stronger.  I  have  felt, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  if  I  stood  beside 
a  sick  aunt  who  was  over  seven  hundred  miles 
away.  I  looked  at  her  at  first  and  could  hardly 
believe  that  I  was  not  in  reality  at  her  side. 

What  is  the  use  of  spending  time  to  discover 
how  the  spirit,  or  both  body  and  spirit,  could  pos- 
sibly get  so  far  from  home  and  back  again  in  a 
few  seconds?  There  is  a  perfect  explanation  at 
hand.  No  doubt  you  already  perceive  it ;  but,  lest 
some  may  not,  I  will  make  it  plain. 

Remember  that  I  said  I  felt  as  if  my  body  were 
there  as  well  as  my  spirit.  In  reality  my  mind 
zvas  simply  zvalking  around  in  its  oum  brain 
picture  gallery  looking  at  the  views  of  my  aunt 
as  they  come  dozm  by  "zvireless!3 

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Since  the  beginning  of  time  we  have  been  try- 
ing to  attribute  this  kind  of  work  to  spirits.  Is  it 
not  about  time  to  use  our  reason?  Such  pheno- 
mena can  be  simply  explained,  as  I  have  just  re- 
corded. We  see  the  distant  moon  by  reflected 
light  on  its  surface.  If  I  prove  to  you  that  I  can 
send  out  wireless  waves  by  thinking,  which  I  can 
prove,  then  you  must  acknowledge  that  if  they 
strike  something  which  causes  resistance  to  the 
flow,  that  resistance  must  cause  heat,  and  light 
if  they  have  sufficient  force.  The  light  must  be 
reflected  back  and  all  that  one  needs,  in  order  to 
make  use  of  the  rebound,  is  an  instrument  which 
will  record  the  wave  impressions.  We  have  the 
instrument  or  machine  which  takes  those  impres- 
sions, which  prints  the  pictures  perfectly  and 
hangs  them  up  in  our  brain  gallery  for  our  in- 
spection now  or  fifty  years  hence. 

As  I  have  said  before  in  this  work,  I  am  not  a 
scientist,  but  feel  capable  of  erecting  a  few  land- 
marks which  may  cause  one  to  stop,  at  first  out 
of  curiosity  perhaps,  and  examine;  then  to  sit 
down  with  interest  to  study  a  little  more;  and 
soon  to  probe  the  subject  with  irresistible  force. 

Whoever  admits  the  above  chain  of  reasoning 
to  be  sound  will  be  compelled  to  probe.  He  will 
have  to  admit  the  soundness  of  the  argument  be- 
cause the  thermometer  tests  cannot  be  thrown 
aside. 


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Parallel  lines  of  reasoning  will  hold  good  in 
that  argument  as  well  as  in  spectroscopic  work. 
If  the  fusion  of  a  piece  of  steel  always  gives  the 
same  colors  of  light,  if  they  are  always  arranged 
in  the  same  relative  position,  and  a  ray  of  light 
from  a  distant  sun  when  reflected  into  the  same 
machine  gives  exactly  the  same  picture  of  color, 
form,  and  arrangement.  If  this  is  considered 
proof  positive  that  that  distant  sun  contains  steel 
or  iron,  then  the  scientist  cannot  with  reason  re- 
ject my  explanation  of  this  other  phenomenon. 

If  he  admits  that,  so  far,  the  arguments  are  in 
general  correct,  then  I  will  proceed  to  offer  him 
other  fields  for  his  inspection.  The  fact  that  we 
have  a  mental  picture  gallery  is  just  as  positive 
as  that  there  is  red-hot  iron  in  the  sun.  If  I  can 
give  a  correct  description  of  another  man's  in- 
ternal anatomy  as  well  of  his  external  (as  ex- 
plained above,  and  which  I  am  willing  to  prove  at 
any  time  and  place),  then  if  I  tell  you  that  I  can 
see  the  pictures  hanging  in  my  own  salon  or 
brain  impression  department  (a  fact  which  no 
reasonable  person  will  deny),  you  should  believe 
me  when  I  say  that  one  can  see  the  pictures  in 
another's  mental  gallery.  Positively  this  is  true ! 
If  you  stop  and  consider  you  will  recognize  the 
truth  of  this  by  your  own  experience. 

Have  you  not  many  times  caused  a  person  to 
turn  abruptly  about  and  look  at  you  as  if  you  had 

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asked  him  a  question?  Have  you  not  repeatedly 
found  yourself  simultaneously  thinking  and  ex- 
pressing the  same  thoughts  as  another?  Have 
you  not  known  persons  drawn  together  by  the  in- 
tensity of  their  love  for  each  other,  when  there 
seemed  to  be  no  possible  hope  of  such  a  result? 
In  this  latter  case,  what  was  the  cause?  In 
modern  cant  it  was  mental  telepathy,  but  in  real 
intelligible  terms  it  was  the  transference  of  brain 
pictures.  You  have  in  your  picture  gallery  views 
of  your  old  home,  your  old  companions,  your 
father  and  mother. 

If  I  can  look  into  that  supposedly  private  apart- 
ment and  see  its  hangings,  why  should  you  think 
it  a  mystery  if  I  can  tell  you  your  past?  If  you 
write  me  a  description  of  those  things,  the  picture 
is  printed  by  the  exchange  of  a  piece  of  paper.  If 
you  tell  me  the  same  things,  my  brain  gets  those 
pictures  to  use  as  long  as  life  lasts,  if  it  needs 
them.  The  exchange  of  pictures  in  this  way  is 
just  as  mysterious  as  in  the  other  way,  which  I 
have  explained. 

When  you  tell  a  person  orally,  the  sound  waves 
make  the  impressions.  When  you  write  to  him 
it  is  his  own  thinking  about  the  forms  on  the 
paper  that  does  the  work.  When  distant  you  have 
the  picture  transferred  through  the  flesh  and 
skull  to  the  brain  or  sensitive  plate  by  electric 
force.  Brain  pictures  have  been  photographed 
by  a  scientist  in  France  successfully. 


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At  this  minute  I  have  no  doubt  of  soon  being 
able,  after  forming  a  picture  in  my  own  brain, 
to  cause,  by  this  same  electric  force,  the  impres- 
sions of  it  to  be  made  in  the  brain  of  another 
person  within  the  circle  of  my  power  to  send  out 
those  waves.  I  might  transfer  the  picture  to 
another  without  his  knowing  it  unless  he  was  in 
some  way  notified  to  take  a  look  in  his  gallery 
and  view  it.  Just  as  I  can  heal  another  at  a  dis- 
tance or  raise  his  temperature  without  his  knowl- 
edge, so  I  might  send  him  the  picture. 

Because  of  this  transference  of  thought  pic- 
tures one  should  always  be  very  careful  of  the 
kind  of  thoughts  that  he  sends  out.  There  is  al- 
ways some  brain  sensitive  plate  which  will  re- 
ceive them  and  perhaps  follow  their  suggestions. 

Perhaps  you  do  not  see  all  the  wonderful  pos- 
sibilities that  rest  in  these  arguments  if  they  are 
true.  You  will  say  that  it  is  a  dangerous  power. 
If  one  man  can  see  all  that  another  has  in  his 
mind  life  will  be  intolerable ;  God  could  not  wish 
such  a  state.  Now,  if  a  person's  body  can  be 
seen,  externally  or  internally,  whether  absent  or 
present,  then  by  parallel  reasoning  why  should 
not  the  brain's  contents?  If  God  made  me  so 
that  by  the  discovery  of  this  seeing  quality  I  can 
do  good  to  others,  then  he  must  have  made  me  so 
that  I  can  do  evil  also  if  I  so  desire. 

We  are  free  agents  while  on  this  earth,  to  do 

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as  we  dare,  or  as  we  are  allowed  by  our  fellow 
men.  I  can  see  good  in  this  as  in  all  other  things. 
If  you  have  friends  who  are  liable  to  call  upon 
you  at  any  moment  you  will  keep  your  house  clean 
at  all  times.  Morally  and  physically,  also,  one 
should  keep  clean,  ready  for  the  Great  Inspection 
at  any  time.  If  one's  friends  can  view  one's  body 
and  mind  at  any  time,  why,  one  must  keep  things 
in  good  order  in  both  body  and  mind,  or  be  little 
respected.  I  have  often  thought  that  God  made 
a  great  mistake  in  allowing  us  such  a  way  to  hide 
our  intentions  and  inside  filth. 

The  world  will  certainly  be  better  for  having 
its  individual  mind  actions  more  publicly  ex- 
posed, as  well  as  for  having  its  material  insides 
more  closely  inspected.  Nearly  all  internal  dis- 
eases are  started  and  perhaps  too  far  gone  for 
effective  help  before  the  patient  knows  of  their 
existence.  The  same  is  true  of  the  mind.  If  a 
mother  could  only  see  the  pictures  her  child  is 
forming  in  its  brain,  what  a  change  there  would 
be  in  the  next  generation! 

X. 

Trying  to  see  my  own  optic  nerve  made  me 
wonder  how  it  was,  if  I  were  seeing  with  my 
eyes,  I  could  possibly  look  backward.  Of  course 
this  idea  is  not  new  to  the  world.  Many  people 
know  that  the  eyes  are  only  a  medium  for  get- 

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ting  the  light  into  the  brain.  Upon  reflection  I 
saw  that  the  eyes  were  not  a  necessary  mechan- 
ical instrument  for  seeing.  Here  again  I  invite 
the  scientist  to  probe.  If  I  can  see  another's 
troubles  at  a  distance  without  the  use  of  eyes, 
the  reflected  rays  passing  through  my  skull  and 
flesh  to  the  sensitive  plate  in  the  brain,  I  ask 
why  a  man  who  is  hopelessly  blind  so  far  as  his 
material  eyes  are  concerned  can  not  do  the  same 
thing. 

Do  you  think  that  our  Lord  and  Saviour  has 
left  us  to  our  miseries  without  a  remedy?  No! 
a  thousand  times,  no !  When  I  first  began  to  see 
things  without  my  eyes  I  did  not  dream  what  it 
meant.  I  have  now  been  at  it  for  about  seven 
months,  during  which  time  the  strength  of  my 
eyeless  sight  has  been  gradually  becoming  greater. 
The  wonder  of  it  is  that  I  did  not  realize  what 
it  meant  until  about  ten  days  ago,  when  I  began 
to  see  faces  perfectly  when  the  persons  were 
absent.  I  said  to  myself,  "Can  it  be  possible  that 
blind  men  can  see  at  last?"  Other  people  have 
seen  things  probably  in  the  same  manner,  but 
because  their  minds  were  not  open  to  receive  the 
light  they  did  not  make  the  discovery.  The 
wonder  of  it  is  overwhelming.  To  think  that 
such  a  simple  thing  should  have  been  overlooked 
for  so  many  ages!  If  I  can  see  the  outside  of 
a  person's  body  when  distant,  then  I  can  learn 

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to  see  the  outside  of  a  building  without  my  ma- 
terial eyes,  or  a  road  or  a  sidewalk.  From  par- 
allel reasoning  this  is  positive  proof. 

As  before  stated,  I  can  prove  beyond  a  shadow 
of  doubt  that  I  can  see  the  internal  organs  of  a 
person,  and  this  makes  the  foundation  for  the 
parallel.  You  will  note  that  I  am  not  trying 
to  prove  that  I  can  see  the  outside  of  objects  as 
yet.  I  am  not  yet  strong  enough  to  do  so 
positively. 

If  you  read  my  works  and  follow  the  discov- 
eries made  therein  you  cannot  get  away  from 
the  "deadly  parallels."  I  will  give  an  instance 
of  outside  seeing  which  I  have  just  experienced. 
My  son  went  to  Nevada  with  his  team  to  play 
foot-ball.  About  eleven  o'clock  in  the  forenoon 
of  the  day  of  the  game  I  "saw"  a  bruise  on  his 
right  cheek-bone  and  the  right  side  of  his  face. 
It  was  too  early  for  an  accident  in  the  game, 
which  was  scheduled  for  the  afternoon.  Still 
I  was  forced  to  conclude  that  they  had  played 
in  the  forenoon  and  that  my  boy  had  been  hurt. 
On  his  return  he  told  me  that  he  had  had  a  severe 
swelling  come  under  the  right  eye,  reaching  to 
the  cheek-bone.  It  started  while  he  was  on  the 
train  and  had  kept  him  awake  nearly  all  night. 
I  did  not  see  it  exactly  as  it  was.  Part  of  the 
picture  was  from  imagination,  as  I  could  ac- 
count for  it  only  by  thinking  that  he  had  fallen 
on  his  face  and  scraped  it. 


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A  man  came  to  me  who  had  already  lost  one 
leg  below  the  knee  through  a  disease  which  closed 
up  the  arteries  and  caused  the  foot  to  decay.  The 
physicians  had  told  him  that  the  other  leg  must 
be  taken  off  at  once.  The  toes  were  black  from 
the  absence  of  circulation. 

He  understood  my  method  and  worked  on  him- 
self to  get  the  corpuscles  moving  again  through 
the  arteries.  That  very  night  when  I,  too,  be- 
gan to  work  on  the  case,  I  saw  the  circulation 
renewed  and  the  black  blood  disappear,  the  toes 
returning  to  normal  color.  I  told  my  wife  that 
the  black  was  gone. 

Two  days  later  when  he  came  to  see  me,  the 
first  thing  I  asked  him  was  how  the  black  part 
looked.  He  replied  that  he  had  not  inspected  it 
because  heretofore  whenever  he  did  it  had  been 
worse,  and  that  had  sickened  him.  I  told  him 
that  I  thought  the  black  was  gone.  He  admitted 
that  the  leg  felt  much  better.  When  the  foot 
was  bared,  sure  enough,  it  was  perfectly  white 
— much  to  the  man's  astonishment. 

It  is  not  necessary  now  to  mention  more  in- 
stances of  the  same  nature.  I  have  been  right 
so  often  that  I  know  what  is  coming. 

What  is  this  "sub-conscious  mind"  mystery  we 
are  hearing  so  much  about?  What  is  this  climb- 
ing of  ideas  from  the  sub-conscious  mind  to  the 
conscious  one?  If  you  have  not  already  guessed, 
I  will  tell  you  in  a  few  words. 

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An  order  given  and  obeyed  necessitates  intel- 
ligence on  both  sides.  This  intelligence  may  be 
equal  on  both  sides ;  but  as  a  rule  it  is  not  so.  In 
the  body  there  are  the  night  and  day  Crews  to 
keep  the  work  going.  Now  when  you  talk  to  the 
sub-conscious  mind  of  a  sleeping  person  you  are 
simply  talking  to  the  night  foreman  and  his 
workmen — that  is,  to  the  gray  matter  scattered 
throughout  the  body,  which  contains  the  formen 
in  the  sub-picture  galleries,  and  the  corpuscles 
and  cellular  life  to  execute  the  mind's  will. 

Belief  in  spirits  about  us,  who  direct  our  af- 
fairs or  tell  us  how  to  secure  our  own  betterment, 
is  an  absurdity.  Can  anyone  show  that  those 
who  consult  with  spirits  have  ever  been  any 
better  off  than  those  who  have  not  had  such 
guidance  ? 

Suppose  you  were  asked  to  stand  before  all 
the  nations  of  the  world,  each  represented  by  one 
man  who  was  an  incarnation  of  all  the  good  and 
bad  qualities  of  his  own  country,  a$  displayed  in 
its  past  actions.  You  are  to  pick  out  the  one 
whose  works  in  the  past  have  done  the  most 
good  to  the  world  in  general.  I  will  answer  for 
you  that  you  will  be  obliged  to  name  one  of 
those  who  represent  Christian  countries. 

Apply  the  same  test  to  those  who  believe  in 
spirits,  occult  things,  dreams,  and  all  supersti- 
tions.   You  will  not  pick  one  of  them  as  a  great 

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benefactor  to  his  race.  You  will,  on  the  con- 
trary, pick  out  some  cold,  unimpassioned  scien- 
tific investigator,  whom  God  has  placed  among 
us  to  keep  us  in  the  useful  way.  When  the 
electric  age  began  it  was  this  scientist  who  found 
exact  rules  for  the  daily  use  of  the  new  force. 
We  still  do  not  know  what  it  is;  but  neither 
do  we  know  what  water  is,  or  air.  We  may 
think  we  know  all  about  water.  Yet  we  might 
name  its  parts  and  subdivide  them  till  the  end 
of  time  without  being  any  the  wiser  as  to  what 
it  is.  This  knowledge  all  helps  us,  however,  to 
make  greater  use  of  water. 

We  will  not  know  what  anything  is  until  we 
have  arrived  at  the  Great  Beyond.  It  is  so  with 
this  thought-force,  electricity  started  into  motion 
by  Mind.  It  is  not  necessary  to  know  what  it 
is  in  order  to  make  commercial  use  of  it.  We 
must  have  the  scientific  investigation  to  teach  us 
all  that  is  in  it,  so  that  it  may  be  turned  to  use- 
ful, intelligent  work.  That  is  what  I  cannot  do; 
and,  realizing  that  I  cannot,  I  am  calling  for 
help. 

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Since  time  began  there  have  been  people  who 
have  seen  pictures  of  distant  things  or  persons. 
Yet  not  one  of  them  has  been  able  to  leave  a 
useful  rule  that  would  enable  another  to  "see" 

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also.  There  are  to-day  people  who  are  making 
fortunes  by  the  diagnosis  of  diseases.  When 
you  ask  them  how  it  is  done  the  best  they  can 
say  is  that  it  is  a  gift.  God  loved  them  so  much, 
forsooth,  that  he  has  given  it  to  them  as  a  special 
mark  of  approval !  They  do  not  know  otherwise, 
else  I  am  sure  they  would  see  more  in  it  for  them 
by  making  such  knowledge  public  property.  The 
same  holds  good  in  mind-curing. 

I  do  not  wish  to  injure  anyone's  business.  Yet 
I  know  that  if  investigation  proves  what  I  think 
it  will,  a  thousand  people  will  gain  where  one 
loses.  If  I  can  stop  the  common  practice  of 
metaphysical  and  medical  "doctor  chasing"  (ex- 
cept of  course  in  necessary  cases),  I  shall  have 
accomplished  a  good  so  far-reaching  that  it  will 
cover  any  minor  loss  to  individuals. 

I  desire  to  affirm  again,  that  it  may  not  be 
forgotten,  that  a  physician  who  uses  good  medi- 
cine is  just  as  safe  as  a  metaphysical  doctor.  If 
one  is  very  sick  indeed  he  cannot  treat  himself 
and  must  of  necessity  go  to  some  one  else  for 
relief.  Such  healing  is  legitimate.  But  the  work 
of  the  present  metaphysical  doctors  and  of  irre- 
sponsible medical  ones  is  worse  for  the  human 
race  than  a  wholesale  giving  of  alcoholic  liquors 
to  the  growing  generation. 

Think  of  the  people  who  believe  that  God  can 
and   does   cure  their  ills  just  as   Christ  cured 


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them!  They  sit  in  their  offices  and  treat  those 
who  come  to  them  at  the  rate  of  one  dollar  for  a 
few  minutes'  thinking,  the  poor  patient  believing 
God  does  it.  The  only  proper  and  safe  way  is 
to  discriminate  and  force  the  "chronics"  to  rely 
on  their  own  powers,  after  instructing  them  how 
to  heal  themselves. 

We  are  trying  to  sail  our  little  ships  over  life's 
ocean  without  compass  or  rudder.  Each  one  of 
us  is  running  about  in  time  of  tempest  to  find 
someone  who  will  tell  us  how  to  repair  dam- 
ages. All  the  ages  we  have  had  a  remedy  within 
our  grasp  but  did  not  know  it.  It  is  a  positive 
law  that  one  who  is  educated  to  its  use  can  keep 
perfectly  well.  The  whole  secret  is  to  begin  in 
time.  If  you  wait  until  the  trouble  has  had  a 
start  it  is  hard  to  control  it.  Suppose  you  al- 
lowed a  child's  evil  tendencies  to  continue  un- 
checked for  years.  Could  you  then  expect  to 
correct  them  easily,  or  even  at  all? 

The  seeing  quality  is  absolutely  essential  for 
the  great  work  of  healing.  Since  opposition  is 
necessary  to  keep  us  up  to  our  work,  inside  as 
well  as  outside,  it  is  plain  that  we  ought  to  have 
the  power  to  know  when  the  battle  is  going 
against  us.  In  the  battle  of  life  we  can  always 
tell  how  our  affairs  are  going,  and,  by  extra 
exertion,  often  win  because  of  that  knowledge. 
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are  gathering  too  strongly  in  certain  places  we 
can  rout  them  by  a  little  extra  work. 

The  great  secret  in  this  curing  is  actually  to 
see  the  very  center  of  the  enemy's  works  and  to 
send  your  little  fighters  thither.  Your  intelli- 
gence keeps  ahead  of  the  work  in  hand;  and 
that  is  the  only  way  in  which  lasting  good  can 
be  accomplished  in  this  world. 

I  can  look  at  a  diseased  stomach,  actually  see 
it  all  black  with  germs,  and,  in  ten  minutes,  view 
it  turn  light  when  the  white  corpuscles  take  pos- 
session. Soon  as  they  do  the  patient  at  once 
feels  improvement.  I  have  now  acquired  the 
power  to  see  the  nerves  and  their  diseased  parts. 
As  soon  as  the  germs  are  destroyed  or  driven  out 
pain  ceases.  If  this  had  happened  only  a  few 
times  it  might  be  doubted;  but  it  never  fails. 
You,  too,  can  do  the  same  thing  if  you  desire. 
You  need  only  two  qualities  to  succeed.  Perse- 
verance and  work  will  make  success  for  you. 
But  you  may  perhaps  say,  "I  tried  it  and  it  did 
not  work."  Let  us  see  how  long  you  tried  it. 
"A  few  minutes,  about  five  at  a  time,  two  or 
three  times  each  day."  Your  perseverance  is 
truly  remarkable!  You  will  go  to  a  doctor  and 
he  will  give  you  a  prescription.  You  take  this 
to  a  druggist,  who  charges  you  at  least  fifty 
cents.  The  doctor's  bill  added  to  it  makes  at 
least  two  dollars  and  a  half.    You  spent  an  hour 

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going  to  the  doctor  and  a  half  hour  going  to  the 
druggist.  The  two  dollars  and  a  half  represent 
ten  hours'  worth  of  work.  This  added  to  the 
other  time  makes  a  grand  total  of  eleven  and  a 
half  hours  you  spent  in  trying  to  get  relief. 

If  you  will  spend  eleven  and  a  half  hours 
really  thinking  of  your  pains,  even  if  you  have 
never  tried  it  before,  I  will  guarantee  an  abso- 
lute cure.  Before  you  give  up  the  trial  so  easily 
just  stop  and  count  up  the  hard  work  repre- 
sented by  the  cash  with  which  you  purchase 
medicine.  You  have  become  used  to  working  for 
the  medicine  and  do  not  think  of  it  as  time 
spent  in  curing  yourself.  As  a  race  we  are  just 
as  truly  lost  to  our  real  surroundings  as  though 
we  were  in  the  wilds  of  Africa  without  knowl- 
edge of  the  points  of  the  compass. 

Since  I  have  developed  this  seeing  faculty  I 
have  been  watching  the  old  drunks.  Every  one 
of  them  has  a  collection  of  germs  in  his  intes- 
tines caused  by  the  continual  tipping  of  the 
glass.     This  trouble  can  be  cured. 

I  have  likewise  taken  notice  of  boys  who  are 
inclined  to  be  bad,  and  find  that  they,  too,  have 
a  colony  of  bacteria  which  no  doubt  are  the 
source  of  their  desire  to  do  wrong.  If  you  have 
a  pin  sticking  continually  into  your  back,  can 
you  be  good?  Suppose  your  three  nervous  sys- 
tems are  loaded  with  germs,  all  eating,  breeding 
and  keeping  warm  there.     Can  you  keep  calm? 

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This  nervous  trouble,  which  only  about  one 
woman  out  of  a  thousand  escapes,  is  the  primary 
cause  of  many  divorces.  Half  of  the  business 
men  also  have  the  terrible  disease.  You  say  it 
cannot  be  possible,  but  I  assure  you  that  it  is 
true.  They  do  not  realize  that  their  whole  wire 
system  is  being  gnawed  at  by  these  little  rats. 
They  are  martyrs,  every  one  of  them.  What 
does  a  few  minutes  of  burning  at  the  stake 
amount  to  when  compared  with  whole  years  of 
constant  pain  caused  by  these  little  rodents? 
What  we  need  is  an  army  of  Dr.  Blues  to  show 
us  a  way  to  clean  up. 

I  find  that  a  person  who  has  "nerves"  will, 
if  the  germs  are  routed,  at  once  become  a  cheer- 
ful and  agreeable  companion.  Now  suppose  the 
case  of  two  persons,  man  and  woman,  who  from 
the  long  struggle  with  the  problem  of  getting  a 
living  have  grown  into  the  habit  of  snarling  at 
each  other  over  every  question  which  comes  up. 
The  cause  lies  in  the  destruction  of  their  nervous 
systems.  They  will  at  once  smile  and  love  each 
other  as  of  old  if  those  little  devils  are  driven 
out. 

Judge  no  man,  for  you  may  be  surprised  to 
see  him  in  the  next  world  crowned  a  martyr, 
whom  in  this  world  you  thought  a  demon.  Study 
yourself  and  see  if  perhaps  you  are  not  a  martyr 
while  your  acquaintances  think  you  a  bad  case. 

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The  glorious  way  in  which  human  beings  bear 
up  under  such  conditions  is  grand!  I  have  felt 
sorry  for  sheep  and  cattle  being  driven  to  the 
slaughter;  but  that  pity  was  surpassed  by  the 
deeper  one  when  I  thought  of  the  prolonged  suf- 
ferings of  man  in  his  struggle  of  life. 

No  doubt  the  goal  is  worth  the  struggle,  else 
God  would  not  permit  it.  The  troubles  of  a 
child,  at  the  time  of  them,  are  just  as  distress- 
ing and  real  to  him  as  are  those  of  any  "grown 
up."  Yet  we  laugh  at  our  boyhood  troubles.  So 
shall  we  make  merry  over  the  worst  of  our  trou- 
bles here  when  we  shall  arrive  at  the  fulfillment 
of  life. 

You  should  not  grow  old!  You  should  not 
allow  your  shoulders  to  droop  and  your  chest  to 
cave  in  when  you  pass  the  fifty-year  line.  You 
should  have  hope  that  you  can  and  will  live  for 
hundreds  of  years.  Just  start  in  after  reading 
this  to  keep  your  workers  within  you  up  to  the 
mark.  Never  dream  that  you  are  going  down  the 
hill.  If  you  begin  to  idle  on  life's  road,  so 
will  they. 

There  was  once  in  Asia  a  father  of  a  very 
large  family  who  became  so  involved  that  he 
could  no  longer  support  them  all.  One  day  he 
called  them  to  him  and  so  informed  them.  They 
were  good  children,  as  the  world  goes,  and  each 
one  at  once  promised  to  do  something  for  him- 


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self.  Three  of  them  decided  to  go  south  to  new 
countries,  while  four  went  north  into  barbarian 
wilds.  The  rest  stayed  near  home  to  help  their 
father.  After  years  of  hardships,  it  happened 
that  they  simultaneously  decided  to  take  a  trip 
to  view  their  old  home  once  more.  None  of 
them  knew  that  the  others  would  be  there. 

It  was  a  great  surprise  to  the  old  folks  in 
many  ways.  The  boys  who  had  gone  to  the 
southern  tropical  country  came  back  indolent, 
ignorant  and  dirty ;  worst  of  all,  the  terrible  heat 
had  turned  their  skins  black.  Those  who  had 
gone  to  the  northern  snow  countries,  on  the  other 
hand,  were  energetic,  alert,  and  refined;  most 
surprising  of  all,  they  had  become  almost  white. 
All  the  boys,  when  they  had  left  home,  had  been 
of  a  yellowish  color.  You  can  imagine  how 
the  poor  old  father  felt  upon  seeing  such  changes 
in  his  family.  The  sons  from  the  north  did  not 
care  to  associate  with  those  from  the  south,  who 
were  ignorant  and  ill-kept,  while  they  themselves 
were  refined  and  fastidious.  The  father  said  to 
himself,  "One  as  bad  as  the  other." 

What  was  the  cause  of  his  grief  ?  What  really 
sent  this  poor  father  to  an  early  grave?  It  was 
blindness,  or  ignorance  if  you  like,  on  the  chil- 
dren's part,  in  not  knowing  the  conditions  under 
which  each  had  lived  in  his  adopted  country. 
Those  who  went  south  became  indolent  because 

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they  did  not  take  notice  of  the  excessive  heat, 
which  caused  their  corpuscles  and  cell  life  to 
take  it  easy.  They  had  nothing  to  oppose  them 
inside  or  out;  hence  they  deteriorated.  The 
fierce  sun  heat  discolored  their  bodies.  Those 
who  went  north  found  too  much  opposition;  the 
terrible  struggle  to  make  a  living  against  cold 
and  barbarians  made  them  too  active  and  aggres- 
sive. They  became  cold-blooded  and  proud. 
The  father  saw  it  all  and  grieved  for  those  whom 
he  loved. 

If  you  slacken  your  pace  the  least  your  little 
defenders  will  imitate  you.  My  little  boy,  only 
twelve  years  old,  can  cure  all  his  ills,  and  see 
them,  too.  He  has  been  working  at  it  now  about 
two  years;  but  it  is  only  within  the  last  few 
weeks  that  he  has  begun  to  see  them.  I  myself 
have  had  that  knowledge  for  only  about  seven 
months.  If  a  twelve-year-old  boy  can  learn  it 
in  so  short  a  time,  any  grown  person  should  be 
ashamed  to  give  it  up  as  too  hard. 

The  concentration  of  thought  requisite  to  be 
successful  is  acquired  by  practice.  This  alone 
would  be  sufficient  reason  for  teaching  all  school 
children  how  to  cure  their  own  troubles.  If  chil- 
dren in  all  the  schools  were  taught  this  method 
the  different  diseases  which  go  the  rounds  of  the 
schools  would  disappear.  Children  are  so  sus- 
ceptible that  it  would  be  very  easy  to  make  them 
absolutely  healthy  men  and  women. 

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SUMMARY  OF  INSTRUCTIONS. 

In  concluding  this  second  work  I  am  going 
to  tell  you  exactly  how  to  set  about  learning 
this  seeing  quality. 

You  must  have  perseverance  and  plenty  of 
practice,  in  order  to  make  much  of  a  success. 
I  desire  to  have  every  one  possible  learn  all  I 
have  writtten  in  both  works.  I  have  them  copy- 
righted, but  will  never,  so  long  as  I  have  con- 
trol, try  to  stop  anyone  from  making  public  use 
of  the  knowledge  contained  therein,  provided  he 
does  not  try  to  make  money  from  those  who 
should  do  their  own  work. 

There  will  be  enough  to  do  in  diagnosing  peo- 
ple's troubles  and  in  curing  those  who  cannot 
help  themselves.  The  medical  doctors  are  the 
ones  who  should  take  up  this  work;  for,  with 
their  knowledge  of  anatomy,  they  can  succeed 
very  quickly  in  making  cures  which  now  would 
be  considered  miracles. 

The  first  thing  to  do  is  to  sit  down  and  realize 
that  what  I  have  disclosed  is  common  sense  and 
ought  to  work,  even  if  it  does  seem  far-fetched. 
The  next  thing  is  to  try  to  get  imaginary  pic- 
tures of  the  trouble.  To  do  this  you  should  look 
at  cuts  of  the  human  anatomy.  The  more  you 
know  about  it  the  more  you  can  hope  for  success. 
The  next  step  is  to  try  to  see  the  exact  center 

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of  the  disease,  which  generally  looks  black.  Hold 
the  picture  of  it  just  as  steady  as  possible  and 
as  long  as  you  can  without  making  your  head 
ache.  If  you  desire  to  see  the  backbone,  try  to 
imagine  you  are  looking  at  a  skeleton;  then  you 
will  see  only  that  part.  If  you  desire  to  see  the 
nervous  system  of  the  back,  do  the  same  thing 
by  trying  to  see  it  with  the  flesh  on  and  the 
nerves  branching  out.  When  you  know  that  a 
certain  part  is  diseased  and  you  imagine  you  can 
see  it  looking  black,  at  once  switch  your  thoughts 
from  that  to  one  in  a  person  whom  you  do  not 
know  to  be  healthy,  and  note  the  difference. 

If  you  are  going  to  build  a  house,  some  one 
must  conceive  a  picture  of  it  before  a  mark  is 
made.  To  make  a  cure  of  an  organic  trouble 
one  must  see  the  organ  perfect  with  the  order  to 
the  intelligent  life  to  build  to  those  lines.  No 
organic  trouble  can  be  positively  cured  without 
this  knowledge  of  anatomy. 

Keep  trying  this  day  after  day.  Each  time 
that  you  try  you  are  gaining  force;  some  day 
when  you  are  trying  it,  you  will  see  the  halo 
around  the  diseased  part.  Then  you  will  know 
that  the  foundation  is  laid.  To  do  a  thing  which 
no  one  has  ever  done  before,  you  must  have  the 
idea  that  you  are  reaching  out  into  the  unknown. 
Then,  like  the  coral  builders,  your  mind  will  keep 
putting  out  new  thoughts,  each  a  little  beyond 
the  other,  until  sunlight  is  reached. 

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Mental  Therapeutics 

With  steady  practice  your  imaginary  pictures 
will  surely  become  real.  This  is  true  in  anything 
you  undertake,  if  you  use  good  judgment  and 
persevere.  The  pictures  will  first  come  to  you 
as  black  and  white,  something  like  the  X-ray 
photographs  you  see  in  the  papers.  As  you  gain 
strength  of  current,  they  will  gradually  change 
to  the  actual  color.  The  halo  rarely  ever  comes 
to  me  now.  I  explain  it  as  caused  by  a  certain 
strength  of  current  which  I  have  grown  beyond. 

I  do  not  know  it  all,  therefore  can  only  give 
my  experience  as  it  happened.  In  conclusion  I 
will  say  to  those  who  make  the  attempt,  "Try, 
try;  always  keep  trying  and  you  will  surely  be 
rewarded/' 


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